Consumables
PaperCo waste recycling helps European Tour boost its enviro standards
Wednesday 26. August 2009 - The "Born Again" closed-loop waste recycling scheme devised by PaperCo has helped the organisers of the Barclays Scottish Open golf tournament break new ground in their quest to meet the most exacting environmental responsibility standards.
Working closely with the organisers, Donald Murray Paper has arranged for all of the unsold programmes from the recent tournament, as well as the printers waste, to be uplifted by PaperCos waste management specialists and this will be re-pulped ready for recycling.
“We are very concerned to do all we can to minimise our impact on the environment,” says Robert Gordon, commercial manager of PGA European Tour. “To this end we have been using PaperCos 9lives 55 recycled coated paper for our programmes for the past three Scottish Open tournaments. This year we were keen to go the extra mile by having any leftovers recycled – and the Born Again waste collection scheme has enabled us to do just that.”
Devised by PaperCo for adoption by printers, office paper buyers and end-users, Born Again offers customers individually tailored recycled paper sourcing and waste recovery solutions that will optimise the return of their unwanted paper to the fibre pool and demonstrate their commitment to sustainable procurement in a measurable way. It guarantees to provide full paper fibre audit trails and avoids any use of landfill.
“Born Again is a complete product-in, waste-out service that starts with the meticulous sourcing of environmentally sound papers from carefully selected mills in Europe,” says PaperCo marketing manager, Charles Eaton. “The customers waste is then subsequently collected and the recovered material returned to the paper mill to be re-processed as new product.”