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Special report Environment

Raising the banneR foR Rattractions, but will your National Recycling Awards in
ecycling paper has its
London, beating household
environmentally aware customer, names such as Marks & Spencer.
keen to improve the ‘green’ Managing director Richard Costin
credential of their business, think said the award “demonstrates
it is enough? After all, there have that our initiative is the UK’s
been stories in the press about number one closed loop
a glut of plastic bottles waiting solution”.
to be recycled, or about other
material being sent off to be Straightforward
“recycled”, when all the recycling Banner’s system, which is
process really involves is turning already used by the likes of
the stuff into mulch that is used,
McDonalds and Virgin Media,
Recycling roads. How can your customers collected from the customer and mono copiers, plain paper have it stored in a secure depot
is straightforward. Paper is
for example, as infill for surfacing
and taken to the mill where it is
be sure that that won’t happen to
fax machines, inkjet and laser
segregated according to who it
the paper you collect from them?
and shredded within 24 hours.
printers. It also meets that
All customers are then presented
Closed loop paper systems
came from. The shredded paper
should set such worries aside –
because under such systems the
use of chemicals or bleach, and
environmental sensitivity.
that confirms the documents
turned back into paper which is
paper your customers send away is then de-inked, without the German Blue Angel standard for with a certificate of destruction
Banner has chosen to add
have been completely destroyed
to be recycled is reprocessed and sent back to the customer. to its offer as well, to improve in a manner which complies with
Office supplier Banner’s efforts to sent back to them as brand new It’s not just the paper that is security. Many companies are the Data Protection Act.
It’s not surprising, then, to hear
promote closed loop recycling have paper. focused on either. Any waste that understandably wary about that HMRC is among the many
allowing outside contractors
is created from the de-inking
That is certainly the way the
been making headlines closed loop service that Banner process is used as energy to in to shred and recycle their central government departments
Business Services is currently power the mill producing the paper, because they do not who are making use of Banner’s
offering works. The company is paper. And Banner’s lorries are have full control over how the service. Its civil servants are all too
currently the only office products backfilled to help reduce the paper is disposed of, and so aware of the need to maintain
supplier to offer such a service total carbon footprint the whole worry that someone else might confidentiality in the way they
– although paper merchants process creates. take advantage of sensitive dispose of their documents. Yet
such as Antalis McNaughton That way customers can be information it might hold. at the same time they want to be
have also been experimenting sure that they really are being Banner has attempted to able to show that the tax system
with the idea. Banner has already provided with environmentally overcome that by offering on-site can also be fully environmentally
supplied over 1 billion sheets of friendly paper that truly has shredding services, or else by friendly. Banner’s system allows
closed loop paper, and in July been recycled from paper they offering an off-site service that them to be so.
this year such efforts helped it used before. What’s more, the guarantees to have the paper
win the large business of the new paper that comes out is picked up by uniformed drivers n FOR MORE INFORMATION
year category at the prestigious guaranteed for use on colour who are security cleared, and to VISIT www.banner-online.biz

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