GREX
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ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SHEET
Paper selection:
Revive Silk
• Origin: Australia
• Pulp contents: 15% Post consumer
waste, 20% pre concumer waste, 20% mill
broke, 45% sustainably managed forests
• Bleaching process: Mixture of
Totally Chlorine Free (TCF) and Elemental
Chlorine Free (ECF)
• Environmental certification:
ISO 14001
Inks:
The inks we will be using are vegetable
based instead of petroleum. The base
liquid contain a variety of vegetable
oils including corn, walnut, coconut,
linseed, canola and soy-bean oils. Some
advantages to using vegetable based
oils from both an environmental and
technical design perspective include:
• Replacing petroleum oil with
vegetable oil in printing inks utilises
a renewable resource and helps conserve
finite petroleum supplies.
• It reduces emissions from >30%VOC
to as low as 2 - 4% VOCs.
• The printing press can be cleaned
with a water-based cleaner, replacing
a high solvent cleaner and further reducing
VOC emissions.
• The printed product is easier
to de-ink in the recycling process and
results
in a less hazardous sludge.
Printing process:
For the production process:
• We will be using computer to
plate technology (CTP) which removes
the process of making plastic films
• Printing plates are made using
a chemical free process
• Water on press is supplied from
rain water tanks
• Energy used is from a green
supplier
• All waste materials are recycled
including; paper off-cuts, paper rapping
and used plates. Cloths used for cleaning
the press are washed and reused.
In addition to this, Creative Sustainable
Design (www.csdesign.org)
will take out a Greenfleet (www.greenfleet.com.au)
subscription specifically for this order.
17 trees will be planted in Australia
making the production of this program
carbon neutral.
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