PRINTITRESELLER.UK 45 VOX POP certification which is due at the end of Q1 2023. This will help drive this setting a clear road map for our wide-format paper offerings. Steve Holmes: PaperCut recently joined the Forest Positive movement, which is a targeted extension of sustainability that looks beyond waste reduction and carbon neutral targets. The Forest Positive initiative has been designed to directly benefit the trees and forests of the world. It tips the scales beyond neutral into an environmental surplus. We’re excited by how Forest Positive printing ensures that print takes an active part in waste reduction and restoring the planet’s natural resources. Managing print and planting more trees than those used by an end-user’s printing, means that Forest Positive printing with PaperCut Grows ensures that not only is PaperCut saving trees, but it’s now just as actively planting them. We don’t send Christmas cards either; fittingly, trees are planted instead. The PaperCut Grows sustainability program is available with our flagship solutions PaperCut MF and PaperCut Hive. Created to help print users turn a negative footprint into an environmentally positive contribution, PaperCut Grows is a simple and inexpensive up-front investment per printer based on a print fleet’s size, which transforms printing into an immediate environmental impact. PaperCut Grows is part of PaperCut’s print management functionality and handles all the calculations and conversions. Through the PaperCut Grows dashboard, users can see realtime print tracking and tree planting volumes for a transparent view of their Forest Positive printing. We leave the tree planting to the ecological experts, our non-profit reforestation partner, One Tree Planted. Emma Boniface: ISO14001 Environmental Management accreditation in progress with British Assessment Bureau – UKAS Accredited. ISO14001 is an internationally recognised standard that allows companies to set up and implement an Environmental Management System (EMS). Companies use this framework to establish their own performance targets alongside the procedures, systems and reviews to ensure sustainable business operations. The certification ensures that we meet current public expectation and can act as a badge that assures both potential customers and stakeholders that we take green matters seriously. Some business contracts will require our organisation to demonstrate an adherence to environmental standards and ISO14001 can often pre-qualify organisations for this part of the application process. EcoVadis provides holistic sustainability ratings service of companies. The EcoVadis rating covers a broad range of non-financial management systems which are similar to DCC’s four sustainability pillars which include environmental, labour & human rights, ethics and sustainable impacts. We are also working closely with customers and vendors to see how we can support each other on our sustainability journeys. Sonia Mangat: HP has partnered with leading conservation and environmental organisations, including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Arbor Day Foundation, to invest in forest restoration and responsible management to counteract deforestation for non-HP paper used in HP printers and print services. Since 2016, HP has achieved 100 per cent zero deforestation associated with HP branded paper and recently pledged $80 million to expand its partnership with WWF to address the impacts on forests from printing with HP printers. The Arbor Day Foundation has been a key partner in helping HP achieve its goal of planting one million trees globally each year. To date, HP and our reforestation partners have been responsible for planting over 40,000 trees across UK and Ireland, and one million globally each year, since 2020. Following this, our recent forest restoration campaign saw us partner with WWF ambassador, Ben Fogle, who visited the Mersey Forest in the UK to explore how HP is working with the Arbor Day Foundation to establish new woodlands as part of HP’s Forest Positive framework. This framework ensures we work towards restoring and protecting forests by influencing customers and industry and continuing ‘Print Smart’ efforts to reduce paper consumption. www.xeretec.co.uk https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ www.asl-group.co.uk www.artsystems.co.uk www.papercut.com www.exertis.co.uk www.hp.com www.brother.co.uk We’ll continue this topic next issue. The EcoVadis rating covers a broad range of non-financial management systems which are similar to DCC’s four sustainability pillars Emma Boniface Sonia Mangat
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