Environmental Stories & Articles

Australian Environmental Paper

Paper supplies to APN Print are increasingly environmentally-conscious. Supplier environmental surveys reveal product and manufacturing details to prove the environmental qualifications of paper products.

Norske Skog supply from their Tasmanian mill, paper that is 20% recycled and 80% from sustainable forestry. Paper from New Zealand is made from sustainable forest residues.

Oceanic Multitrading supply newsprint from (PT Aspex) from Indonesia which is manufactured from 100% recycled fibre.

Heatset paper produced by NPI (Nippon Paper Industries) in Japan is 55% recycled.

Waste paper from all of our print sites are recycled either back through Oceanic Multitrading or through local suppliers to be re-used or re-cycled.

Our printing plates are on-sold to a scrap metal company.

APN Print are constantly looking at ways to use recycled products and ensure that all of our waste products are recycled.

Strong Environmental Investment from APN Print

APN Print is leading the environmental drive for newspaper-print operations in New Zealand through its early commitment to the EnviroSmart and Enviro-Mark campaigns. Both programmes enable businesses achieve “a truly clean, green, sustainable New Zealand”.

APN Print New Zealand general operations manager Dan Blackbourn says APN Print is committed to protecting the environment. “Furthermore, there are cost-saving efficiencies to the concept -- such as recirculating water discharge. We are very early in the process, so the full potential of these benefits are yet to be realised. But overall, accreditation will both benefit the environment and help our cause commercially.

So, if possible, we’d like to be ahead of any Government or regional bylaws that will be introduced in the future.”

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