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WHAT’S NEW
Low melt, low
carbon
Lexmark is introducing a new
line of Corporate Cartridges
for its A4 CS/CX colour and
MS/MX monochrome devices.
Marketed as the company’s
most sustainable supplies to
date, they use low-melt Unison
toner, which is claimed to have
a per-page carbon footprint up
to 46% smaller than Lexmark’s
largest competitor; are made
in the EU; and incorporate
components recovered
through the Lexmark Cartridge
Collection Programme (LCCP).
A new office paper that allows
businesses to offset the
environmental cost of their
paper use has been launched
by Premier Paper in association
with the UK’s leading woodland
conservation charity. Woodland
Trust Office Paper, ‘The Paper
that Plants Trees’, is a high white,
Colorlok-certified office paper
ideal for use with laser and inkjet
print devices. It is totally chlorine-
free and has Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC), Carbon Capture,
Nordic Ecolabel and EU Ecolabel
certification. All CO2e generated
from the production, storage
and distribution of the paper has
been offset through the Trust’s
Woodland Carbon Scheme, which
captures carbon by planting
sustainably managed, bio-diverse woodland.
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Trees not cards
People who prefer not to send
cards are being asked to make
an equivalent donation to Trees
for Cities in exchange for a
carbon reduction certificate.
DontSendMeACard.com
founder Alex Furness says
that donating the £51.50
that it would cost to send 50
Christmas cards – £25 for the
cards plus £26.50 for 2nd
class postage – will reduce
your carbon footprint by 3.747
tonnes. With £50, Trees for
Cities can plant 10 trees that
in their lifetime will absorb 3.74
tonnes of carbon. Not sending
50 Christmas cards will save an
additional 7kg of CO2e, based
on a calculation by Exeter
University that sending one
card creates 140g of CO2e.
contribute/Sh3R
No fuss recycling
Print solutions provider
Automated Systems Ltd (ASL)
has introduced a vendor-
neutral toner cartridge recycling
scheme for its customers. The
ASL Green Cartridge Scheme
provides customers with a free
recycling bin for the collection of
all used printer toner cartridges
regardless of make or model.
When the bin is full, the customer
just needs to make a call and
the bin will be collected. ASL
managing director Mark Garius
said: “Each manufacturer has
different or sometimes non-
existent recycling schemes. Our
goal was to have one simple
solution that deals with all
cartridges used by a customer,
regardless of the machine they
come from.” Based in Cambridge,
ASL has offices in the Midlands,
London and Milton Keynes.
This year’s model?
Epson EcoTank printers break
with the print industry’s traditional
razor/razor blade model, by
charging a realistic price for the
printer hardware and very little
for the ink. The first two Eco Tank
printers – the L355 (£249) and
L555 (£329) – come with four ink
bottles, one per colour, containing
as much ink as 55 normal inkjet
cartridges, enough to print 4,000 mono and
6,500 colour pages. Epson has calculated
that to acquire any other Top 10 European printer
plus the equivalent amount of ink would cost in the region of
£750, compared to £250 for the L355 – a saving of 65%. Once
you have unpacked the printer you simply decant the supplied ink
into the tanks on the side of the device (a very simple process) and
start printing. If you do use up the ink that comes with the printer,
replacement ink bottles can be bought for just £7.99 each, which
works out at a fraction of a penny per page.
You print, they plant
