Environmental & sustainability

Environmental & sustainability

We believe that protecting the environment should be everybody's business and have taken steps to actively pursue an environmental policy that goes beyond regulatory compliance for the benefit of all. This policy revolves around the core values of responsible and sustainable business practice.

By any measure we are a very large supplier of paper, ink and machinery products to the graphic arts industry and as such we are actively aware of our Corporate and Social Responsibility to our employees, customers and stakeholders.

FOREST CERTIFICATION AND WELL MANAGED FORESTS

The overwhelming majority of industry companies practise sustainable forestry by harvesting less than they grow and using international ‘well managed forest' standards.

An environmental chain of custody (CoC) process establishes a link between responsible production of forest products and their end use. It thereby enables the consumer to make socially and environmentally responsible purchasing decisions. A fundamental plank in establishing the chain of custody is the concept of independently verified audits to provide certified assurance for all participants in the supply chain. CPI Group has embraced this concept wholeheartedly.

The FSC and PEFC certification schemes are the two most established and best known of all such certifications and all CPI Group warehouses nationally, are certified to FSC and PEFC standards and are audited annually to these standards.

UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S MORE THAN JUST TREES

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are in place at key CPI Group suppliers. The most robust of these is the accreditation known as EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme). Beyond regulatory compliance, EMAS involves participants in reporting their environmental performance for public scrutiny and external auditing, and is predicated on the notion of continuous improvement.

In order to ‘clear the air' we have conducted, nationally and continuously, information sessions for customers and, in many cases, our customer's customers. These sessions are designed to simplify and demystify the language of environmental certification and to discuss the facts behind today's key environmental issues.