In March the British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) launched a 'special carbon calculator' to measure the carbon footprint of a one-off print job and the annual carbon consumption of a printing business; only a few years after Leap launched theirs in conjunction with St Austell Print Company.
“We’ve tried to do a full life cycle of the printing process,” explains the BPIF’s Liam Gardner. “But it’s massively complex when you try to calculate the impact from cradle to grave,” he admits. For instance, if you’re looking at inks and solvents, do you calculate the energy needed to extract the oil in the first place, he asks. “So we’ve focused on getting the basics right,” he explains.
This move by BPIF couldn't come at a better time with the UK print industry worth over £14 billion with a carbon footprint to match.
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