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This guidance is for businesses that:
- print text or images on various substrates, eg digital printing, offset lithography, flexography, gravure printing, letterpress, and screen printing
- carry out imaging operations, eg film exposure and development, typesetting, paste up, and proofing
- publish materials and electronic resources, eg producing, editing and copyrighting intellectual property, creating proofs, and producing marketing materials
- finish published materials, eg book binding, cutting and trimming, folding, pasting, adhesive binding, laminating, mounting, and punching.
Environmental impacts of printing and publishing businesses
Printing and publishing businesses can have a number of impacts on the environment. Example include:
- air emissions from solvent-based inks, solvents from degreasing operations and ozone from UV lamps or corona discharges
- land contamination from spills of solvents or other chemicals
- noise pollution from operating equipment
- waste disposal of used process liquids, chemical sludges and materials for recycling
- water discharges from screen production or washing-out plates.
How can NetRegs help you?
Our guidance could help you to:
- avoid prosecution and receive fewer visits from environmental regulators
- increase efficiency and productivity
- reduce your operating costs
- be more likely to obtain business from government bodies and large businesses that require their business partners to manage their environmental impacts effectively
- improve your reputation amongst staff, customers and the public
- increase the chance of securing funding to expand your business by demonstrating that your environmental impacts are well managed.
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