You are probably aware that NB Colour Print has always been an advocate of more ethical, sustainably sourced print. Many initiatives have been introduced over the years to make our print more environmentally friendly and reduce out impact on the planet.

One of these was taken in 2012 to become a Carbon Balanced Printer. This meant that all of our unavoidable carbon emissions have been measured, verified and offset through investment in environmental schemes through The World Land Trust, a UK charity with some very distinguished patrons including Sir David Attenborough. We are just one of 11 UK based printers to hold this accreditation.

As well as offsetting our business emissions, we can also offset the carbon in the paper purchased for individual jobs. This meant we could tell our customers, who chose to carbon balance their printing, exactly how much carbon had been offset by their job and the area of land this has helped to save through the World Land Trust.

Unfortunately, the Carbon Balancing Programme hit a bit of a snag last year when their principal paper partner went into Administration. However, the initiative was re-launched in December 2015, and the new scheme means we are able to Carbon Balance any paper that we buy.

Carbon Balancing is a great way for a business to communicate its own environmental accreditation to its customers. It’s easy to do and can help meet targets set up your own Carbon Management or sustainability programme. Coupled with this, NB Colour Print only uses ethically sourced paper from sustainable sources in all of our print.

So when you buy your print from NB Colour Print, you can be confident that not only will it look great, but it won’t cost the earth either.