Friday, April 30th, 2010
Source: The Dead Tree Edition High prices for recycled paper are threatening to shut down what may be North America’s premier recycled-newsprint mill, Catalyst Paper. “Increasing ONP [old newspaper] prices will negatively affect manufacturing costs at the Snowflake mill, and could result in future production curtailment at that mill,” the company said in ...Friday, April 30th, 2010
One very sexy niche emerging in the printing substrate sector is that of “environmentally preferable,” non-wood materials. But is using them really all that good for the environment? Rob Tossberg of Plan It Green Printing is a Southern California print broker with a decidedly environmental bent (and a healthy skepticism – ...Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
According to the Olympian (the Olympia WA newspaper): The Matakana Island, which loaded logs at the Port of Olympia's marine terminal, departed Wednesday, April 27, for Shanghai, China. The ship, registered in Hong Kong, required more than 2,000 hours of dockworker labor to load about 2.6 million board feet of ...Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
When an announcement for something new like copy paper made from 100% sugar cane and bamboo fibers comes across my desk, I have to learn more about it. The product as described on the TreeFrog website: TreeFrog is made of 100% sugar cane and bamboo fibers. TreeFrog paper is 3rd party laboratory ...Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Source: Press Release from the issuing organizationsThe Sustainable Green Printing Partnership and ACE Public Relations LLC have announced a partnership to promote environmental stewardship through SGP certification. On a pro-bono basis, ACE will provide counsel and will use a variety of communication tools that will help to position SGP as ...Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Every tried to put an odd-shaped item in the right-sized box? It's hard! Either the box is too big or too small or has all kinds of leftover space. Here's the answer - a box that can be shaped to fit the contents! Designer Patrick Sung's Universal Packaging System is meant ...Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership and the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership recently hosted a webinar addressing the role of renewable energy in reducing the carbon footprint of printing facilities and on using green power as part of a printer’s marketing message. From this writer’s point of view, ...Monday, April 26th, 2010
According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the United States lost a greater percentage of its forest cover during the 2000-2005 period than did Brazil, Indonesia or Canada. The PNAS study of seven nations that each contain more than a million square kilometers of forest—Russia, Brazil, ...Friday, April 23rd, 2010
PUMA has designed the ultimate “flat box!” The bag/box is made of a single folded sheet of cardboard in a reusable, recyclable PET bag, designed to protect shoes from the time they leave the factory until the customer gets them home. Here’s how it works. The “Clever Little Bag” will ...Friday, April 23rd, 2010
In this conversation between WhatTheyThink's Cary Sherburne and Stephen Goddard, Environmental Leadership Program Manager for HP, you'll hear some ideas for "greening up" your operation. Some of the questions that Stephen and Cary discuss: Why is it important that printers should green up their operations? Are printers slow to go green? Are customers ...
