The fourth annual WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards, in partnership with Unisource and the Unisource Respect Printers' Program, is offered to any graphic communications services provider located in North America, regardless of size and printing process. We believe that innovative ideas are not constrained by company size or location.

The awards recognize companies that are making real and concrete contributions to innovation, implementation, and communication of environmental solutions. The object is to provoke, encourage, and celebrate creative thinking and innovative solutions.

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We want to recognize the commitment and investment of time and energy that it takes for companies to put creative sustainability initiatives in place. Winners of the Fourth Annual Environmental Innovation Awards will be announced April 23, 2012.

Winners will be flown to Atlanta, where they will be presented their awards by executives from WhatTheyThink and Unisource. Not only will each recipient be spotlighted on all of WhatTheyThink's online properties, each will be keynoted in a one-on-one video they can share with the press and their customer base as they choose. Winners also receive 1 year site-wide corporate access to WhatTheyThink.com

Five awards will be presented to leading companies who have developed environmental solutions within the design, production, and delivery value chain for printed graphic communications. The categories are:

Judging Criteria

• The applicant must be located in North America.
• The applicant may not be a manufacturer, vendor, or supplier offering products or services to print service providers.
• The project/initiative/activity should be in active operation.
• The applicant must be in compliance with all applicable federal, state/provincial, and local environmental, health, and safety (EHS) requirements.
• The project will be disqualified if it is deemed to be "a misleading and unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue to create a pro-environmental image." No greenwashing.
• The project/process should be original and innovative and go beyond common solutions already in place.
• The project/process makes good economic sense and the environmental impact can be documented.
• The project/process has concrete result, the applicant should document the results; if the project is too new the applicant should provide projections.
• The project/process should be capable of implementation by any company of any size.
• The submission application should be articulate and coherently presented.

Terms and Conditions

• The WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards reserves the right to withdraw an entry from the judging process at any time if the entry is deemed inappropriate for any reason.
• The WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards reserves the right to decline to select a recipient for any category if the number/quality of the applications is too low.
• Award decisions are final.
• Any information provided to the WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards may be used and published worldwide without reserve.
• Winning entrants may be asked to provide additional information upon request from the WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards judges or staff.
• The WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards and all its intellectual property remain the sole property and copyright of WhatTheyThink.

To Enter

Entries for the Environmental Innovation Awards are to be submitted electronically no later than 5:00 PM (EST) April 6, 2012 to Awards@WhatTheyThink.com. Organizations may submit applications in more than one category, however a separate application must be submitted for each category for consideration.