Reducing necessary waste and going plastic-free and sustainable with your packaging is an area many companies are embracing as eco-friendly options become more widely available to small businesses.
It's important to ensure that your packaging and print materials match your sustainable ethos and your suppliers can enhance this with a carbon neutral proposal and using renewable materials.
Tips on choosing a sustainable and eco-friendly printer
- Most companies will have a Sustainability Policy which will detail how they are offsetting the energy they use or the paper they waste. Find a local printer or one in your country to cut down on carbon emissions.
- The use of chemical inks are reducing as printers move to vegetable-based and vegan-friendly inks.
- Digital printing is more eco-friendly and uses less water waste.
- Request that your items are delivered in plastic-free wrappings where possible.
Sustainable Paper
Choose recycled paper or materials produced with re-used, post consumer waste.
Ensure your paper is FSC® approved and responsibly sourced.
Not for the faint hearted when it comes down to budget, other products can be utilised in the manufacture of recycled papers such as Elephant Dung, Hemp Cannabis or Flower Seeds.
FSC is the top-standard for ethically-sourced paper products. They make sure that the paper they certify has come from responsibly-managed forests. These are forests that are socially beneficial, economically viable, and environmentally conscious. The FSC label means that the product contains wood from an FSC-certified forest. Visit the FSC Website for more information.
Biodegradable vs Compostable Packaging Materials
In our throw-away culture, there is a high need to create materials that can be less harmful for our environment; biodegradable and compostable packaging materials are two of the new green living trends. As we focus on making sure that more of what we throw out from our homes and offices is biodegradable or even compostable, we are closer to the goal of making the Earth an eco-friendly place with less waste.
A biodegradable material is not necessarily compostable but a compostable material is always biodegradable!
How long does it take to decompose?
Paper Bag 1 Month |
Newspaper 1-5 Months |
Cardboard Box 2 Months |
If you can minimise, re-use and renew in any way then you will reduce the amount of raw materials being used.
Our Sustainability Accreditations (As of February 2021)
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management certified
- FSC® certified
- PEFC® certified
- Member of Sedex the ethical supplier register
- CIPS Sustainability Index
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BKT is committed to continuous improvement on the environmental impact during the course of its business production. Our environmental policy confirms our processes to achieve our sustainability objectives using sustainable materials and energy for all aspects of our business.
Visit our Environmental Policy for more information.
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