printing.com is one of the largest and fastest growing franchised print companies in the UK with over 300 outlets. Excellent environmental credentials have played a big part in their success. Their continued commitment to Tree Appeal has seen them raise their planting target to 100,000 trees this year.
"Caring for the environment is fundamental to everything we do.
In November 2009 Professor David Bellamy visited schools across the UK and Ireland to help plant some of the 50,000 trees sponsored by nationwide printing company printing.com.
The tour celebrated printing.com's achievement of reaching their 50,000 tree target.
Our business works because we're as efficient as possible. We use as few resources as we can. Fewer resources mean less waste. But we're never content. All our processes are constantly refined to ensure that we minimise waste. What waste we do produce, we separate into seventeen distinct streams for easy recycling or reprocessing. We compact all of our waste paper to minimise transportation, prior to being recycled. Our printing plates are recycled and our used chemicals are disposed of responsibly.
See pictures from our planting day at Toronto Primary School, Livingston
See pictures from our planting day at Broomhill Primary School, Glasgow
See pictures from our planting day at St Joseph’s Primary School, Antrim
See pictures from our planting day at Cabinteely Community School, Dublin
See pictures from our planting day at Audenshaw School, Manchester
See pictures from our planting day at Kingsway Primary, Nottingham
See pictures from our planting day at Cefn Onn Primary School, Cardiff
See pictures from our planting day at Tardebigge CofE First School, Bromsgrove
We use vegetable-based inks, pumped straight from large drums, rather than smaller cartridges in wasteful packaging. And talking of packaging, we've drastically reduced the volume of waste we pass on. All of our cartons are produced from unbleached board.
We've introduced many new products printed on 100% recycled paper. Where possible, the rest of our paper stock is made from wood pulp which is Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF). All pulp is sourced from sustainable forests, where trees are farmed as crops - just like wheat."
See pictures from our planting day at West London Academy, Northolt
See pictures from our planting day at St Oswald's Junior, Guiseley
See pictures from our planting day at Hipswell Primary, North Yorkshire
See pictures from our planting day at Sowerby Primary School, Thirsk
See pictures from our planting day with Reid Street School at The Denes, Darlington
See pictures from our planting day at Mowden Junior School, Darlington
See pictures from our planting day at Seven Acres, Bolton
See pictures from our planting day at Wooscombe Wood, Forest of Avon
Printing.com's success, according to its founder and CEO Tony Rafferty, is fixed in its 'hub and spoke' structure and centrally controlled supply chain, which gives it better cost-efficiency than other high-street firms. By centralising production, the company can deliver jobs requiring giant commercial printing presses, which offers customers faster print times at reduced costs.
See pictures from our planting day at Henley Green, Coventry
See pictures from our planting day at Poppleton Ousebank Primary School, York
See pictures of Tree Appeal at Bestival