Helping you to do your bit

[hightide]

We’re all looking for ways to reduce our impact on the environment, but it can be hard to reconcile that with those things we feel we have to do.

That’s why we’ve teamed up with Professor David Bellamy and the Tree Appeal, to help businesses to give back a little to compensate for their marketing activity.

We want to plant 10,000 trees (http://www.hightideproductions.co.uk/trees/)

We'll plant a tree for every eighth order placed in participating printing.com outlets.

We also offer lots of products printed on recycled paper stocks, use paper sourced from sustainable forests, and we’re careful to ensure that we limit our environmental impact throughout the printing process (http://www.treeappeal.com/partners/pdc.html).

Small things can make a difference.
Here are some more tips for doing your bit, and greening up your life and your business:


Look at the simple ways you can save 20% of your energy usage at the Energy Trust website (http://www.est.org.uk/myhome/)
Offset your carbon - as well as planting trees to cover your paper usage with us, plant trees to offset the emissions produced from your energy use and your transportation (http://www.carbonneutral.com/)
Recycle more! Not just old newspapers, but think about things like reusing your ink cartridges (http://www.smart-cartridge.com/), or how about making your own compost? For lots of ideas go to: www.recyclenow.com (http://www.recyclenow.com/)

I’d love to hear what people think about our Tree Appeal project - call me on 0870 950 7775 or email jon@hightideproductions.co.uk

[Cornish Steve]

When we lived in Florida, we learned of a state ordinance that requires a tree to be planted for every tree that's cut down. Could this kind of rule be pushed around the country?

[hightide]

Wouldn't be a bad idea at all.
The paper printing.com uses is sustainable.
All pulp is sourced from sustainable forests, where trees are farmed as crops - just like wheat.
So we're doing a bit extra really.

The government as I understand wants people to do things but isn't legislating anything.

Here's a quote from the tree appeal website:

"Initiatives like 'Tree Appeal' help support the Government's strategy for sustainable development, with its aims of integrating our objectives on social progress, effective protection of the environment, prudent use of natural resources and high and stable levels of economic growth and employment to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come"
Jim Knight MP,
Minister for Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity, DEFRA

Tree Appeal helps responsible organisations reduce their environmental footprint by planting native British broad-leaved trees. By planting trees we can help you to become carbon neutral. In the process we are providing wildlife habitat for many hundreds of years, passing on to future generations a fascinating and highly valuable ecological heritage.

http://www.treeappeal.com/