We Care - Going Green
What we’re doing to be green:
It’s important to everyone, especially those of us who live in such a beautiful part of the country! We’re committed to recycling, reducing, conserving, and re-using wherever possible.
Here’s what we are doing:
Our water based inks are soy based, and come in a sealed cartridge. When empty, we recycle them by sending them to a company that refills them.
Our solvent based inks use “Eco Solvent” chemistry that is environmentally benign. We recycle those cartridges too.
Our paper scrap is segregated and baled and taken to the local recycling facility. Alex built a baler to make this work for us. Not only does this keep the paper out of the landfill, but we haven’t had to increase the size of our dumpster.
We’ve replaced all of our computer monitors with flat screen units that use much less electricity. All of the new computers we buy are Energy Star rated.
As a graphics company, we use pretty robust workstation grade computers. When they are too slow for us they still have a lot of life in them, and we donate them to several non-profits in the area.
We recycle the glass, plastic, and cans we generate.
We installed motion sensors on the lights in the lunchroom and bathrooms to turn off the lights when nobody is there.
We re-use the boxes our paper comes in to ship your order. Cores from the paper rolls are used to roll banners on for shipping. Scrap cardboard goes into a separate dumpster for recycling.
As winter approaches, we put inserts in our windows to improve their insulating ability. These are wood frames with clear plastic that add a dead air space in front of the window.
We boxed in and insulated our old freight door, which we no longer use. We’ve added weather stripping to all out doors to better seal them, and put insulating panels on all the metal doors to lower heat loss.
We buy paper and laminate by the palette, but we don’t ship very much on palettes. We’ve invited several of our neighboring companies to help themselves to our stack of palettes out back, and they do!
