Recycling

Fespa puts sustainability at the heart of its educational programme for Fespa Digital

Fespa has said it will offer free advice to printers on sustainable production at this year's Fespa Digital exhibition.

Mortons Print awards Palm Recycling waste collection contract

Newspaper printer Mortons Print has awarded Palm Recycling a collection contract for its waste newsprint.

Chesapeake places waste work with J&G Environmental

Waste management business J&G Environmental has won a contract to collect print waste from Chesapeake's 14 production sites.

Paper-based packaging industry makes pledge over mineral oils

The European paper-based packaging industry is to phase out the use of printing inks based on mineral oils for food packaging, following last March's health scare.

DS Smith hails "improved performance in every division" in half-year results

DS Smith has announced a 20% year-on-year increase in its pre-tax profits from 35.6m to 42.8m in its half-year results, on revenues of 1,034m.

De-inking inkjet in spotlight after European conferences

De-inking of inkjet print was in the spotlight last week as two separate European summits looked at inkjet's impact on the recycled waste stream.

Arjowiggins opens Greenfield mill to HP deinking trials

Arjowiggins Graphic and HP have announced an ongoing partnership to look into de-inking Indigo liquid toner and inkjet prints at its advanced wood-free Greenfield mill in France.

Nordic Recycling site suffers major blaze

A blaze involving 10 fire engines has broken out at Nordic Recycling, a waste management company that specialises in recycling waste paper collection.

Metallics in the waste stream

Clinic topics this month: Kevin Purdy on environmentally sound ink; Paul Sherfield on ISO and Fogra standards; and Karen Charlesworth on short-run bookbinding

PaperChain backs recycling campaign

PaperChain is supporting the recently launched Campaign for Real Recycling.