Our Sustainability Journey
Why we promote digital over printed. Is Printing Newspapers Bad?
Newspapers are the most Eco friendly printed form of marketing, the newspaper is thin and light, most newspaper print companies now use eco approved and certified papers only. BUT.. Did you know? One of the biggest paid-for print newspapers releases over just above 800,000 per year. This is a lot of paper usage, we do not want to add to the problem we already have.
Comparing Digital to Printed
Digital media is cost-effective and immediate, which means instant news updates to you! The next reason we promote digital over printed copies is down to our carbon usage; the materials to print, pack and ship your newspaper is not good for our the environment (or our business!) even though we use a chosen company who source FSC papers and Eco Inks, its best to avoid the use of paper completely. Our carbon footprint is reduced by eliminating all these extra elements, publishing online with the easy click of a download button we have eliminated the deforestation of cutting down trees and funding to replacing them, also saving on the use of eco friendly inks and cut the amount of envelopes to pack and ship the newspapers.
Saving Water by printing NO paper.
Even though nowadays people realise that newspapers are not responsible for rainforest depletion, water is still used in the process. How much water is used to produce a piece of paper? Even the crispest piece of A4 pulp paper has swallowed up to 20 litres of water during its production process, even though printing newspaper uses a lot less water, water is still used in the process.
Energy Consumption
How do we save energy? If we was to post, print and pack papers we would use up a full chain of energy sources. By being a digital platform we reduce the energy use easily. For example, the use of printers, delivery vans and the excessive posting of parcels and letters.
