Sustainability Spotlight
Sustainability Spotlight offers informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. FESPA speaks to industry experts about sustainability where you can discover business opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle materials and improve your knowledge.
Circular Economy
How to make sustainable changes to your business by thinking globally and acting locally
Clare Taylor shares small changes and suggestions that businesses can make to improve their environmental impact. These include improving resource and energy efficiency, working with supply chains, preventing pollution and more.
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FESPA achieves ISO certification for Sustainable Event Management
FESPA is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 20121:2012 certification for Sustainable Event Management, an internationally recognised standard for implementing an effective and sustainable event management system.
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How to make effective sustainable changes for your business
FESPA has created Sustainability Spotlight to offer informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. This article offers various guidelines for businesses to help them make sustainable business changes, access the full guidelines below.
How to start your journey in sustainability
Laurel Brunner shares some basic steps of what printers can do to begin their journey in sustainability. These steps focus on conserving resources and minimising waste.
Mimaki Engineering launches eco-friendly carbon ink cartridges to worldwide market
Mimaki launches eco-friendly carton ink cartridges to the global printing industry, significantly reducing plastic usage and improving recyclability This latest solution is another initiative by the company to support printers in reducing their environmental impact
Heidelberg joins the United Nations Global Compact
Laurel Brunner shares the importance of the United Nations Global Compact. Members include Mercedes-Benz, Pearson and Unilever with Heidelberg now joining as a member.
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FESPA UK partners with industry suppliers to improve print media recycling
FESPA UK add Self-adhesive Plastics and Siliconised backing papers to their Waste Management Accreditation Scheme and welcomes support from key industry suppliers.
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Sustainable sportswear: Closing the loop for a circular economy
Joanna Czutkowna is a consultant and doctoral researcher specialising in circularity within sports apparel. With over 20 years’ experience managing global sourcing strategy and innovation departments for some of the world's largest brands, she has extensive experience in product development and global supply chains. In this blog, and ahead of the ‘Designing for the Circular Economy’ panel at the 2024 Sportswear Pro conference (21 March at RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands), she delves deeper into closing the loop with circular garment business models for sustainability benefits.
The importance of gendery equality and creating job opportunities for businesses
Clare Taylor discusses the significance of social responsibility for businesses. Workplace social sustainability is derived from various categories including human rights, modern slavery, discrimination and more.
Is ESG relevant to small businesses?
Clare Taylor describes what ESG is (environmental, social and corporate) and whether it is relevant for small businesses and the reporting schemes associated.
FESPA Print Census: rising sustainability demands
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of Sustainability in the FESPA Print Census. Respondents were all in agreement that there is a rise in sustainability demands. The FESPA Print Census provides a detail account of the latest industry trends for FESPA members.
12 steps to create your sustainable web-to-print business
FESPA's Head of Associations & Technical Lead shares an insightful step by step guide on how to start a sustainable web-to-print business. This offers a lucrative opportunity for printers and provides personalised solutions in a sustainable way.
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How meaningful are goals for reducing environmental impact?
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of resource management and improved process control for businesses who are interested in sustainability initiatives.
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Circular Economy, Sustainable Materials and Carbon FootPrinting
Sustainability is a journey for all businesses and it is important for businesses to take into use sustainable materials, be aware of the UN SDGs, aim to become more circular and to ensure their business is carbon footprinting.
Are digital press manufacturers doing their customers a disservice?
Laurl Brunner discusses how some digital press manufacturers currently have sustainability policies, however too few of them have had proper sustainability conversations with their customers.
Battle of the bottles
Brands are seeking the perfect solution to package drinks and liquids but it might not exist… yet.
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Top Sustainability myths in the decorated apparel industry
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Marshall Atkinson from Atkinson Consulting about the top sustainability myths within the decorated apparel industry. These include water pollution, energy consumption, labour standards and resource depletion to name a few.
The top 10 myths on Sustainability in the Apparel Decoration industry
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Marshall Atkinson from Atkinson Consulting about the top 10 myths about Sustainability in the Apparel Decoration industry. A few of these myths include: sustainability is too expensive, consumers don’t care about sustainability and sustainable materials are not durable or high quality.
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Circular Design Thinking – the importance of creating a circular design process
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Steve Lister, Sustainability Director Global Brands & Retailers from Stevelister.com. Steve is also the Head of Sustainability at POPAI UK & Ireland. In this video, Steve describes what constitutes a good circular design process and the key challenges involved.