The Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Labour may be paying you a visit. Here’s what you need to know now, and what you should do in the future.

When does an Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) have to be performed? Do all printing companies, regardless of size, need to have an ECA in place, or are there exceptions? Is an ECA update something printers can do on their own, or does it need to be signed off by an expert? Why do implementation costs vary so much? Are there ways printing companies can stay up to date for less? As a printing company, what best practices are a must to satisfy the MOE/MOL and set you up for future success? In other words, what should you do right now, and what should you do to guarantee stress-free, long-term compliance? The next Digital Imaging Association (DIA) Meeting Wednesday, January 15, 2025, will answer these important questions.

The presenters

Frances Edmonds, Head of Sustainability at HP Canada since November of 2015, has been a print industry pioneer when it comes to successfully driving business value from sustainability investments and initiatives, setting strategies, and identifying and implementing new and emerging opportunities. First hired in 1999 as an environmental health and safety manager, her role expanded as she and her team began putting some of Canada’s earliest Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs in place. Among her many accomplishments, she helped form Electronics Product Stewardship Canada, a not-for-profit industry-led association that still works with the provinces to implement electronics waste-management regulations.

Ensuring that employees and partners are aware of HP’s sustainability leadership, she also acts as a trusted advisor to sales teams and customers alike. Her other responsibilities include marketing HP’s leadership through all business channels, including social media, and support of the company’s Global & Americas Teams, including managing HP’s global volunteer program. In her almost two decades with the company, she’s helped shift HP towards a more circular model before many other companies put an emphasis on waste reduction. In her early days of working as a scientist testing water quality for a local UK water authority, Edmonds witnessed first-hand how industrial discharges were polluting natural ecosystems. This sparked an early desire to be part of the solution. Today, Edmonds has turned almost all of her attention to developing sustainable procurement practices. She is a graduate of the University of Bradford (UK) with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science.

Consultant Mike Millard’s multi-talented 38-year career in the printing industry has seen him manage key roles in many successful Canadian companies – including that of a Sustainable Team Leader, Health & Safety Manager/Trainer, and Director of Prepress Services from 2008-2022 at the Ellis Group (Pickering, ON), as well as General Manager at Ellis Imaging (Mississauga, ON) from 2005-2008. Most recently, he worked from 2022-2024 at MAX Solutions Canada (Pickering, ON) as Director of Prepress Services and as a Health & Safety Manager/Trainer. Before that he held supervisory prepress positions at Transcontinental (Rexdale, ON) and Yorkville Printing (Scarborough, ON).

His responsibilities have also included installations, upgrades, staff training, project management, Chair and creator of communication committees and continuous improvement for management teams, costing, R&D, daily production supervisor, and many more. His education spans desktop publishing at Durham Business College and Centennial College, flexographic training at Clemson University, and lithography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is also a Digital Imaging Association Board Director and former President. As a corporate sustainability leader, Millard brings unique expertise, having to navigate environmental compliance issues with government agencies at both the management and shop-floor production level.

Register Today: Date is Wednesday, January 15, 2025
• ATTEND ONLINE
Zoom Meeting: 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Please click this link, or copy and paste into your browser: 
https://hp.zoom.com/webinar/register/WN_lgOIAUt9SpePb5dgsuglNg 

• ATTEND IN PERSON
Noon – 1:45 pm (Eastern Standard Time). A light lunch will be provided.
Location: Main Floor, HP, 5150 Spectrum Way, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Register and reserve your spot today: [email protected] • (416) 254-4941