CSR Policy
At Platinum, we believe that responsible ethical and professional business practice should be central to all our operations and day to day business activities.
Environment
Platinum believes outstanding environmental practice needn't cost the earth. The choices we make can have an impact on the world we live in. Making an informed decision to choose responsibly sourced paper and materials strengthens our commitment to the environment.
Platinum, a certified carbon balanced printer
Platinum are thrilled to be one of just a handful of certified Carbon Balanced Printers. We are proud to support the fantastic work World Land Trust are doing to protect threatened habitats and wildlife.
We are pleased to be able to offer our clients the option to be able to offset their paper-based products.
As a Carbon Balanced Printer, we are helping global conservation charity World Land Trust preserve critically threatened habitat in Vietnam. This not only offsets our carbon footprint, but it also helps protect the dozens of endangered species calling these forests home.
View our accreditations and policies.
We are proud of our solar panel installation at our offices in Harrogate.
Investing in solar panels is a significant step towards achieving our environmental goals. It serves as a constant reminder of our commitment to sustainable practices and the role we play in creating a greener future. We believe that through conscious decision-making and investments like these, we can make a real difference in reducing our environmental impact and inspiring others to do the same.
Learn more at: www.worldlandtrust.org
Minimal Environmental Impact
At Platinum we recognise that the environmental choices we offer our customers should cover more than just the paper your products are produced from. As one of the country’s first carbon balanced printers, with our ISO 14001 accreditation and PEC* initiative, you can be confident you have chosen a company whose environmental commitment is far reaching.
*Platinum’s Environmental Commitment programme
Our PEC initiative covers a wide spectrum of areas within our business that goes beyond just paper.
- ISO 14001 accreditation
- Company wide carbon and energy reduction programme
- Remote digital proofing technology
- Chemistry free plate making
- All stock papers FSC® certified
- Choice of vegetable oil based and low energy curing inks
- No isopropanol/alcohol is used on any of our printing presses
- Ink reduction technology
- Certified Carbon Balanced Printer
- Eco-friendly choices for promotional goods
- Modern, efficient machinery
- One of the UK’s first printers to introduce an electric delivery vehicle
- Fleet vehicles chosen for their efficiency not status
- A clear Environmental Policy Statement
- FOC Brown Box and paper recycling scheme
Environmental Policy
At Platinum, we take our commitment to the environment seriously as demonstrated by our ISO14001 accreditation and commitment to responsible business activities.
About World Land Trust
World Land Trust is an international conservation charity that protects the world’s most biologically significant and threatened habitats acre by acre.
Since its foundation in 1989, World Land Trust has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves and give permanent protection to habitats and wildlife.
To date, World Land Trust has helped secure more than 2,973,486 acres of threatened habitat in 30 countries.
The work of World Land Trust is actively supported by their passionate and dedicated patrons.
“The money that is given to the World Land Trust, in my estimation, has more effect on the wild world than almost anything I can think of.”
Sir David Attenborough,
WLT Patron
ISO 14001
Our commitment to responsible business activities
We are proud to have achieved the nationally recognised environmental accreditation ISO 14001, confirming our on-going commitment to reducing our environmental impact.
This includes the management of waste, use of natural resources and energy consumption as well as complying with all environmental regulations, legislation and approved codes of practice relating to print manufacture and any area that the company’s overall business activities encompass.
- It is Platinum’s objective to operate with and to maintain good relations with all regulatory bodies
- It is Platinum’s declared policy to carry out all measures reasonably practicable to facilitate the ability to continually improve environmental performance
- This policy is communicated to all employees, suppliers and sub-contractors and is made available to the public
- All personnel understand their obligations under this policy statement
Platinum constantly monitor and review environmental performance and this Environmental Policy Statement in order to ensure its continuing suitability and will implement improvements whenever appropriate.
Brown Box Recycling
You’ve finished with your Platinum Boxes, what can you do with them?
- We have been running a free of charge brown box recycling scheme since 2010
- We will come and collect your used Platinum boxes for recycling next time we visit or when we are passing
- Just drop us an email or give us a call 01423 881158 so we can make arrangements
Recycling your waste paper
We will also recycle your waste paper too just pop it in the Platinum brown boxes and ask our driver to take it away next time we deliver.
