Earth Greetings Environmental Policy
Earth Greetings are dedicated to sustainable design.
The
Earth Considered
Earth Greetings recognise the dire need to consider the impact on the Earth
in everything we produce, consume and throw away.
We also recognise that printing and paper production has the potential to cause many and varied detrimental environmental effects, and is a significant contributor to global warming.
The biggest single threat to our forests is their conversion into woodchips, pulp and paper. When we destroy forests, we destroy the homes of many native animal and plant species. Our oceans, waterways and their inhabitants are being polluted and damaged by exposure to toxic paper mill effluent & printer waste.
We believe that unless we recognise and consider our impact on the Earth and our reliance on its air, water and resources, this destruction will ultimately lead to our own demise as humans. Our aim at Earth Greetings is to do the absolute best we can to ensure we are using the most Earth considered means possible to create our products, and in doing so provide an Earth friendly alternative.
Earth
Considered Printing
Earth Greetings choose printers who consider the environment in the printing
process. This means ensuring:
• water use minimisation,
• digital to plate printing (less chemicals, energy & waste),
• the use of vegetable based inks (an alternative to greenhouse gas emitting
mineral oil based inks containing toxic volatile organic compounds),
• alcohol free printing (less greenhouse gas emissions),
• the recycling or reusing of waste,
• low chemical and solvent usage and
• energy efficient production.
Earth
Considered Paper
Earth Greetings choose paper stocks which:
• contain 100% post-consumer
waste,
• are not chlorine bleached - eliminating highly toxic dioxin as a residue
and
• are made by environmentally certified mills (EMS, ISO 14001 or EMAS)
that recycle or capture waste before it enters the environment.
Earth
Considered Packaging
• cards are packaged for wholesale in 100% post-consumer recycled paper
bags
• display stands are made of recycled cardboard
• packaging is 100% biodegradable
• packaging is kept to a minimum with no unneccessary extras
• we avoid the use of plastics.
Earth
Considered Office
Our aim is to operate in such a way as to have minimal impact on the Earth’s
environment by:
• using & re-using 100% post-consumer recycled paper for in-office
printing
• recycling all office waste and composting food waste
• refilling and recycling toner cartridges
• using 100% accredited
Green Power
• using energy efficient light bulbs
• we planted trees and shrubs native to our area outside the office (and
now enjoy the constant chatter of native birds!)
Carbon
Offsets
We have offset the carbon created by our car, flights and embedded energy in
our office with Carbon
Neutral who plant native trees to capture carbon dioxide, help
combat salinity, prevent soil erosion, restore biodiversity and help revegetate
degraded land. Our printer, Finsbury Green also offset the carbon emmissions associated with every print job they do for us and give us a measure of how much is being offset for each job.
Earth
Impact Guides
Be informed to how we produce each of our product lines so that you
can make an Earth considered choice.
Earth Impact Guides outline the paper stock, printing methods and inks used in producing each product line. Just click on the links from the product pages.