“Leave the world better than you found it. Take no more than you need. And if you ever do harm to the environment, make sure that you make amends.”
Sara Osorio, EHS affairs coordinator, PRINTING United Alliance, opened the recent “Decoding Sustainability Regulations: What Printers Need to Know” webinar by explaining the basic tenets of sustainability. She put this in context of how sustainability regulations impact the printing industry and what print service providers (PSPs) need to do to meet those regulations, while also describing the overall benefits of implementing more sustainable practices into a business.
“ Sustainability has been a nice thing to do, but it’s becoming something that you must do at this point,” she said. “Different types of laws and policy are going to be things like greenhouse gas emissions limits and reporting and extended producer responsibility, or EPR, for paper and packaging.”
She did point out that there has been regulatory rollbacks under the Trump administration, including the shift to a 10:1 regulatory freeze, meaning for every one new regulation, 10 need to be taken off the books, an increase from the first Trump administration that instated a 2:1 requirement.
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