Beacon Press Celebrates Green Award Renewal

Beacon Press, the East Sussex (UK) printing company, is celebrating the renewal of one of its environmental achievements - a place on the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) green roll of honour.

Beacon Press, the East Sussex (UK) printing company, is celebrating the renewal of one of its environmental achievements - a place on the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) green roll of honour.

EMAS is a Europe-wide scheme recognising organisations with advanced environmental management programmes that go beyond minimum legal requirements and are continuously improving their performance.

In 1996, Beacon became only the 11th company in the UK to gain EMAS recognition.

Since then, the company's environmental management system has won a number of UK and international awards.

Renewal of EMAS 'membership' is subject to a three-yearly performance audit by an independent environmental verifier and Beacon has just successfully undergone its latest inspection.

The company said that it is planning to publish its next environmental report later in the summer.

Meanwhile it has set out a number of targets it wants to achieve, including a reduction to zero of VOC emissions to air, increased promotion of environmentally-sound paper and the use of alternative transport to reduce carbon emissions from its delivery and sales fleet.

Beacon's managing director, Richard Osborne said: "Our ambitious long-term environmental management programme is designed to minimise any negative impacts our activities might have on the environment and to eliminate them where possible.

Successfully renewing our EMAS status after stringent independent scrutiny shows we're still well on target to achieve these goals.".

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