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.
Circular Economy
Blog
Sustainable sportswear: Closing the loop for a circular economy
Joanna Czutkowna is a consultant and doctoral researcher specialising in circularity within sports apparel. With over 20 years’ experience managing global sourcing strategy and innovation departments for some of the world's largest brands, she has extensive experience in product development and global supply chains. In this blog, and ahead of the ‘Designing for the Circular Economy’ panel at the 2024 Sportswear Pro conference (21 March at RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands), she delves deeper into closing the loop with circular garment business models for sustainability benefits.
14-03-2024
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Blog
The importance of gendery equality and creating job opportunities for businesses
Clare Taylor discusses the significance of social responsibility for businesses. Workplace social sustainability is derived from various categories including human rights, modern slavery, discrimination and more.
06-03-2024
Features
Is ESG relevant to small businesses?
Clare Taylor describes what ESG is (environmental, social and corporate) and whether it is relevant for small businesses and the reporting schemes associated.
23-02-2024
Blog
FESPA Print Census: rising sustainability demands
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of Sustainability in the FESPA Print Census. Respondents were all in agreement that there is a rise in sustainability demands. The FESPA Print Census provides a detail account of the latest industry trends for FESPA members.
01-02-2024
Blog
12 steps to create your sustainable web-to-print business
FESPA's Head of Associations & Technical Lead shares an insightful step by step guide on how to start a sustainable web-to-print business. This offers a lucrative opportunity for printers and provides personalised solutions in a sustainable way.
06-12-2023
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Features
How to make effective sustainable changes for your business
FESPA has created Sustainability Spotlight to offer informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. This article offers various guidelines for businesses to help them make sustainable business changes, access the full guidelines below.
17-10-2023
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Blog
How meaningful are goals for reducing environmental impact?
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of resource management and improved process control for businesses who are interested in sustainability initiatives.
05-10-2023
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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
Blog
Are digital press manufacturers doing their customers a disservice?
Laurl Brunner discusses how some digital press manufacturers currently have sustainability policies, however too few of them have had proper sustainability conversations with their customers.
29-08-2023
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
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Top Sustainability myths in the decorated apparel industry
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Marshall Atkinson from Atkinson Consulting about the top sustainability myths within the decorated apparel industry. These include water pollution, energy consumption, labour standards and resource depletion to name a few.
07-04-2023
Podcasts
The top 10 myths on Sustainability in the Apparel Decoration industry
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Marshall Atkinson from Atkinson Consulting about the top 10 myths about Sustainability in the Apparel Decoration industry. A few of these myths include: sustainability is too expensive, consumers don’t care about sustainability and sustainable materials are not durable or high quality.
07-04-2023
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30:56
Circular Design Thinking – the importance of creating a circular design process
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Steve Lister, Sustainability Director Global Brands & Retailers from Stevelister.com. Steve is also the Head of Sustainability at POPAI UK & Ireland. In this video, Steve describes what constitutes a good circular design process and the key challenges involved.
06-04-2023
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Video
36:45
Paper-fibre based materials for exhibitions builds and how they contribute to the circular economy
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Einar Ek, Director of Business Development from Re-board about how the use of paper fibre bring the exhibition industry closer to a circular economy. Einar discusses sustainable forestry management, renewable raw materials, reducing carbon footprint and cellulose fibre-based material.
05-04-2023
Blog
You don’t have to be perfect, just do your best
Clare Taylor shares the importance for all businesses regardless of their size to start their sustainability journey. Clare speaks to Nathan Swinson-Bullough from Imageco about their sustainability journey.
04-04-2023
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Video
21:11
The importance of systems thinking when building a sustainability plan
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Clare Taylor from Clare Taylor Consulting about the importance of systems thinking when creating a sustainability plan for your business and how this can help print businesses.
04-04-2023
Blog
What is the connection between the printing business and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Regina Wilhelm, Sustainability and Environmental Management lead at Brother At Your Side reiterates the importance for print businesses to follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
03-04-2023
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
Podcasts
How can small businesses make a positive impact on the environment?
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Clare Taylor from Clare Taylor Consulting about how businesses can still make an impact on the environment and how even small businesses can make a difference as well as looking at the importance of “thinking global and acting local.”
03-04-2023