POD4Print is a printing company focused on sustainability. It has corporate policies around recycling, limiting toxins, and eliminating hazardous waste. As of 2008, POD4Print earned exempt status from the Oregon DEQ by eliminating all hazardous waste from its facility. The document discusses sustainability from social, environmental, and economic perspectives and how POD4Print incorporates these principles into its operations and services.

2. POD4Print
Who is POD?
Provide Solutions Beyond the
Obvious
 Professional Manufacturing
Organization
 Solutions oriented
 Defy the printing industry
stereotypes
 Re-define printing services

3. POD4Print
Stated Business Objective:
Accountability to:
 Our Environment
 Our Community
 Our Customers

4. POD4Print
Our Environmental Track
Corporate green policy
Reuse
Recycle
Limit toxics
Eliminate hazardous waste

5. POD4Print
Some of our Eco Policies and
 No waste leaves our facility without
testing:
Initial, in-process, periodic
 Everything that can be recycled is
recycled:
 Provide employees opportunity to
recycle
on site
 FSC certified, support sustainable

6. POD4Print
Some of our Eco
 Highly controlled process for
neutralization,
silver extraction and discharge for
plate
processing
 Capturing and cleansing area for
containers
prior to recycling
 Professional and environmentally

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= Environmental
Partnership

8. POD4Print
A significant ECO
Participated in the “Environmental
Partnerships – Hazardous Waste
Program” with Oregon DEQ.
As of 2008 POD earned exempt
status with DEQ by eliminating
hazardous waste from our facility.

9. Printing Sustainably
Here’s the big picture
Social
Bearable Equitable
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W.M.Adams "The Future of Sustainability: Re-thinking
Environment and
Development in the Twenty-first Century.”

10. SUSTAINABILITY
Social
Value the human asset – internally and
externally
Improve the quality of the experience
Build sustainability into the messaging
Select partners with an alignment of
ideals
Promote the betterment of the
Bearable - Equitable - Viable

11. SUSTAINABILITY
Environment
Papers from well managed forests
Utilizing recycled Content
Recyclable Materials
Limit toxics
Minimize Waste
Bearable - Equitable - Viable

12. SUSTAINABILITY
Economic
Design and execution makes fiscal
sense
Optimize target audience
Reduce run lengths to fit
Combine print with other media types
Financially strong partners don’t cut
Bearable - Equitable - Viable

13. SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability in Printing
All technologies have environmental
drawbacks
Be objective – don’t lose sight of the big
picture
Ask questions. Make sure your printer
is accountable for their sustainability
program
Use ‘Carbon Neutral’ approach when

14. PRINTING SUSTAINABLY
Paper and Substrate Choices
Coatings and Laminates
Turn key services
Your printers’ sustainable practices
Efficiency

15. PRINTING SUSTAINABLY
In Summary
Select printing method that obtains the
highest possible rate of return
Select a printing method that balances
the principles of Sustainability
Measure your results, refine your
approach to obtain continuous
improvement