Sustainability
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Supporting Graphic Arts Education with Printing Industry Midwest’s Paper Drive
Fall brings with it a special opportunity to give back to the community by sharing resources with teachers. We have been donating paper to the Printing Industry Midwest (PIM) Paper Drive for the past ten years. PIM members donate paper to support the needs of teachers from schools across the Midwest [...]
IWCO Direct to Offer More Options for Environmentally Sustainable Direct Mail
It’s an exciting time for IWCO Direct us we continue our environmental sustainability journey by preparing to launch two innovative products that will surely be a win-win-win situation: a win for our clients, a win for our company, and a win for the environment […]
Plastic Straws Are Slowly Going Extinct… Good!
As we bring our week-long look at sustainability to an end, I wanted to touch on a very big movement sweeping the nation and also the world: the extinction of plastic straws [...]
Misconceptions About Paper and Print
Paper dates back thousands of years. The paper we know today was created in 105AD by a man named Ts’ai Lun in China. Since the early 2000s, the rise of smartphones and other smart devices has made people question the sustainability of paper-based communications, while largely giving digital media a pass [...]
10 Simple Ways You Can Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint at Work
Whether you work for a big company or a small one, it’s important to keep your impact on the environment in mind. Even small businesses can make strides to reduce their carbon footprint, resulting in benefits for the company, the environment, and individual employees.
How Sustainable Use of Paper Protects Forests on Arbor Day and Every Day
Since the first observance of Arbor Day in Nebraska in 1872 with the planting of about one million trees, Americans have used the holiday as an occasion to reflect on the importance of trees and forests. Arbor Day became an official, legal holiday in 1885 and is always celebrated on the last Friday in April. […]
Earth Day Tips: 10 Simple Things You Can Do to Lessen Environmental Impact
Yesterday was the 49th anniversary of Earth Day, the day that marks the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earthday.org describes 1970 like this: “Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly […]
Paper Industry Sustainability is a Team Effort
In February, we gave you an update on the progress we made to advance IWCO Direct’s sustainability efforts in 2017. As a leading provider of direct marketing services, we understand the importance of actively finding new ways to improve our offerings while maintaining our strong role as environmental stewards. Environmental responsibility is a journey, not […]
Why We’re Building a Sustainability Snapshot in 2018
We continue to expand our ecologically responsible practices at IWCO Direct. We’ve helped our clients deliver better mail campaigns using eco-friendly plastics, partnered with industry-leading conservation organizations to enhance company environmental standards, and established the IWCO Direct Environmental Council to monitor our efforts (to name just a few). We’re not content to rest on […]
Humans vs Robots Part 1: Amazon’s New Human Touch on Packaging Algorithms
The deadline for this blog was fast approaching but putting pen to paper (OK – fingers to keys) had to wait until the holiday clean-up was accomplished and the trip to the local recycling center (aka “the dump”) was completed. Our recycling center requires all non-recyclable waste to be disposed of in special bags that […]
