SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability

Walstead Central Europe pursues its objectives in a way that respects both its employees and the environment.

Our Environmental Health & Safety Policy  sets out how we minimize the environmental impacts of our own service offering and support our clients’ sustainability commitments.

Our commitments include reducing emissions, developing opportunities for recycling and pollution prevention, and using paper, energy and other resources more efficiently.

We achieve sustainability in a number of targeted ways.

GREEN PROCUREMENT across the supply chain by:

  • Ensuring that print and packaging materials meet environmentally-responsible specifications.
  • Choosing additional products and services that cause minimal environmental impacts.
  • Minimizing waste throughout the supply chain.
  • Informing clients on sustainable options.
  • Encouraging sustainable practices among suppliers.
  • Using FSC® certified paper, Licence Code: FSC-C146119. DETAILS
  • Using PEFC certified paper, Licence Code: PEFC/32-32-082. DETAILS

 

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY, or doing more with less.

  • Identifying, measuring, and continuously improving consumption efficiencies for raw materials and other resources.
  • Optimizing paper use.
  • Undertaking Energy Reduction Programs.
  • Pursuing Heat Recovery Initiatives.
  • Implementing a Water Efficiency Program.

 

WASTE MINIMIZATION by Reducing, Reusing, Reprocessing and Recycling.

  • Reducing Emissions using high-end regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) to limit heatset printing emissions.
  • Reusing (reprocessed) chemicals and (filtered) water to reduce resource consumption and discharge.
  • Reprocessing ink to new ink specifications or re-mixing it into black (key) ink.
  • Recycling 100% of waste paper, paper dust, printing plates, plastic wrap and recovered blanket wash-oil.
  • Working only with certified waste contractors.

 

STEWARDSHIP – dedication to compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

 

Complying with:

Supporting clients in product-related compliance requirements (toy safety, food contact, etc.)

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY

QUALITY ASSURANCE & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

CONDITIONS OF SALE

CODE OF CONDUCT & INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES

OUR CERTIFICATIONS

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