Sustainability Spotlight

Sustainability Spotlight offers informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. FESPA speaks to industry experts about sustainability where you can discover business opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle materials and improve your knowledge.

Carbon Calculations

Circular Economy, Sustainable Materials and Carbon FootPrinting
Features

Circular Economy, Sustainable Materials and Carbon FootPrinting

Sustainability is a journey for all businesses and it is important for businesses to take into use sustainable materials, be aware of the UN SDGs, aim to become more circular and to ensure their business is carbon footprinting.

03-10-2023
What is the first step printers should take when measuring carbon?
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What is the first step printers should take when measuring carbon?

FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Dominic Harris, Co-Founder at CarbonQuota who advises printers how to start their carbon calculation journey which consists of Scope 1 and Scope 2 and to create a plan for reduction through to 2030. Dominic also describes how all businesses have an obligation to de-carbonise to climate change and must be financially committed.

17-04-2023
What is the first step printers should take when measuring carbon?
Battle of the bottles
Blog

Battle of the bottles

Brands are seeking the perfect solution to package drinks and liquids but it might not exist… yet.

10-04-2023
The search for sustainable packaging
Blog

The search for sustainable packaging

Nathan Tiller from CarbonQuota the ongoing war on plastic and other sustainable, fibre-based innovations. Life Cycle Assessments offer an objective view of the advantages and disadvantages of different materials.

04-04-2023
The path from recyclable to recycled
Blog

The path from recyclable to recycled

"Touting your packaging as simply recyclable isn’t good enough (and could even be considered greenwashing). Brands must simplify and standardise to enable closed loops at scale so packaging is recycled."

03-04-2023
Why is decarbonisation important to the industry?
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Why is decarbonisation important to the industry?

FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Ali Khalili, CEO at Re-board about why decarbonisation is important to the industry, the main challenges businesses will face trying to reach net zero through carbon emissions reduction and how print businesses can get started the key priorities for maximising emissions reduction.

08-03-2023
Why is decarbonisation important to the industry?