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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Setting up an efficient Energy Management System
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Laurel Brunner, Managing Director at Digital Dots about the key opportunities for energy reduction within print factories and the existing energy consumption audit processes.
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.”
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."
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.
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How to achieve positive transformation and social impact
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Bianca Seidel from Bianca Seidel Consulting about how businesses can positively transform their business. Bianca discusses how you can determine whether the fabric you are purchasing are created in an ethical and sustainable way.
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The death of fast fashion and the birth of sustainable fashion
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Bianca Seidel Seidel from Bianca Seidel Consulting about the need for fast fashion to die and be replaced by durable, sustainable fashion
What does certification mean for the printing industry?
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Laurel Brunner, Managing Director of Digital Dots about sustainable certifications and what they mean for the printing industry. Laurel discusses the benefits of certifications and how accreditation works.
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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.