Sustainability

Recycling initiatives could help PVC to retain its dominant position in the wide-format market.

Signs Express Bath has signed up to a sustainability scheme that will push it to source more sustainable substrates and recycle more extensively.

Packaging giant DS Smith has released new research that says the UK will fall short of its 2035 recycling targets by more than a decade.

Woodland conservation charity The Woodland Trust and web-to-print platform developer Infigo Software have joined the paper advocacy group Two Sides.

Shaftesbury, Dorset-based printer Blackmore has been recognised in the 2018 Kodak Sonora Plate Green Leaf Awards.

A number of companies in the print, pulp, paper and forest sectors have been rated as global leaders on corporate climate action by non-profit global environmental disclosure platform CDP.

Water-based textile inks supplier MagnaColours has unveiled BluePrint, its new sustainability initiative.

The UK packaging industry could get a £500m a year boost from government innovation funding into the development of sustainable packaging.

Zanders has developed a new uncoated grass paper for sustainable packaging.

Smurfit Kappa has joined the paper advocacy group Two Sides.

DS Smith has thrown down the gauntlet in the sustainability arena by pledging to manufacture 100% reusable or recyclable packaging by 2025.

Prince Charles visited James Cropper’s Colourform unit for the production of plastic-free packaging last week, as the project moves ahead in collaborating with businesses.