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News Release from: WRAP | Subject: Recycled paper
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 November 2006
Major Organisations Switch To Recycled
Paper Use
Centrica, HM Revenue and Customs and The Robert Gordon University are the latest UK organisations to switch to using recycled paper, supporting WRAP's drive to promote switching from virgin stock.
Centrica, HM Revenue and Customs and The Robert Gordon University are the latest UK organisations to switch to using recycled paper, supporting WRAP's Recycled Paper Advocacy Team's drive to promote the benefits of switching from virgin stock Since February 2005, the Recycled Paper Advocacy Team has advised more than 600 organisations who together procure in excess of 230,000 tonnes of paper every year
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 2 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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To date, they have commitments from these organisations to switch 70,000 tonnes per year to paper with a recycled content.
WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) said it is working with all of these organisations individually to secure commitments from them to switch to paper with a recycled content.
Centrica, a major producer and supplier of energy and related services, has switched the printing of promotional inserts included with its energy bills to recycled stock.
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In addition, it is also using recycled paper for its CR report and annual report and accounts, together with a number of leaflets and booklets, as well as planning to steadily increase the proportion of recycled paper used.
Bill Wheeler, Centrica's corporate and marketing print buyer, said: "We'd been keeping a watching brief on developments in the recycled paper sector for some time.
We took our interest to the next stage by carrying out research in to the types of paper available and considering some life-cycle analysis to assess the overall environmental benefit." HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has proved that recycled products are equal in performance and reliability having switched to using recycled stock in the production of its employer pack and the Budget pack, said WRAP.
HMRC is now considering using recycled papers for other published documents and it already uses 100 per cent content recycled paper for over 95 per cent of its copier stock.
Russell Perry of the corporate responsibility unit at HMRC, said: "Having had experience of recycled paper some 15 years ago when the quality was much lower, we had to overcome misconceptions to convince some of our colleagues that the quality had improved.
However, by carefully analysing products on the market, we have demonstrated that alternatives are available comparable to the virgin equivalents." Similarly, following its success of printing its monthly staff publication - RGU News - on recycled paper, The Robert Gordon University has since switched to recycled paper for a number of other printed publications.
They include the undergraduate prospectus, which is issued to prospective students, 24 individual course brochures and their watermarked letterhead paper.
It is also looking at the options of changing its copier paper to recycled stock.
Jonathan Tame, who heads up WRAP's Recycled Paper Advocacy Team, said: "There are significant environmental and business benefits to using recycled paper and it also helps to stimulate increased market demand.
Reducing the amount of paper consumed together with buying recycled also has a direct beneficial effect on reducing landfill.".
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