01732 759725 VOX POP 46 ...continued opportunity to have open discussions relating to what is important to them and for us to update them on our initiatives.” Richard Hinds: One of our four sustainability pillars revolves around people, and so we consider aspects such as diversity and inclusivity and mental health as part of this. We’re also seeing great engagement with our employees when rolling out new and improved sustainability initiatives. We’ve seen a good uptake in colleagues converting to electric vehicles and we’re pleased to be able to facilitate this by implementing EV charging points at two of our biggest sites in the UK. “On a more light-hearted note, we also engaged employees with an internal competition to celebrate Global Recycling Day, where our people were encouraged to make their best robot from recycled packaging. Many of the entrants included their children in creating their efforts, further supporting the sustainability message.” PrintIT Reseller: With which groups are you partnering with regarding key sustainability initiatives? Andy Ratcliffe: “Last year we introduced our Print It, Plant It programme with the National Trust, which gives our customers the opportunity to offset a portion of their carbon footprint with local tree planting to create mixed species woodland throughout the UK.” Graeme Savage: “We engage with Crawley district council, Manor Royal business improvement group, Evans Cycles, Carbon Neutral UK, Canon UK, and Smith recycling amongst others.” Mark Bailey: “One of our main partners since 2018 is Epson. We quickly realised with the launch of their Replaceable Ink Pack System that business inkjet will be the way forward. The consumable and maintenance parts are drastically reduced, which fits well with our waste hierarchy of prevention first over recycling waste that didn’t need to be used. “Through the recent ‘Turn Down the Heat’ campaign we have seen great traction with businesses seeking this type of technology over the traditional Customers are genuinely interested when presenting alternative solutions which address the wider sustainability issues we all need to address heat-based laser methods. Customers are genuinely interested when presenting alternative solutions which address the wider sustainability issues we all need to address.” Ato Nimoh-Brema: “Apogee works with PrintReleaf to help drive our reforestation program to reach our target of planting at least one million trees in managed forests around the world by 2030. “Looking forward, we are in the process of onboarding with Ecovadis to help improve sustainability within our supply chain. We are looking to further partner with PrintReleaf to plant a tree for every 8,333 prints made and considering making this service a default offering for our managed print services customers from 2022/23. We have also responded to the Climate Disclosure Project as suppliers of the NHS and HP and will apply to use the CDP framework to drive our sustainability agenda. To drive our people and social pillars, we will sign up to the BCorp movement. Lastly, we have been invited to join Terra Carta as part of the Prince of Wales initiative on sustainability.” Kelly Harris: “We are a Techies Go Green Signatory in the UK and we are a key partner with Consenna and their Carbon Platform.” Richard Hinds: “In 2020, we began working with Macfarlane Packaging in order to reduce our stretch wrap and pallet top sheets material by 24 per cent – a total of 18 tonnes of plastic material at our three logistic centres in the UK. This equates to 45 tonnes of CO2 emission reduction in the plastic material process, equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 112,838 miles driven by an average passenger vehicle. Further stages of the work we are undertaking with Macfarlane will see the process implemented across other Exertis facilities in Europe. “We are also partnering with ERP regarding the impending plastic tax initiative, and are working with New Motion to install EV charging points across major Exertis sites.” We’ll continue with this topic next issue. PrintIT Reseller: With which groups are you partnering with regarding key sustainability initiatives? www.key-digital.co.uk www.neuways.com www.sossystems.co.uk www.apogeecorp.com www.ebmltd.co.uk www.ingrammicro.com www.exertis.co.uk Mark Bailey
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