GOING GREEN
Carr Group launches amb
The Green Initiative aims to facilitate the diversion of waste goods from landfill into a positive end-of-life solution
Supplier to the wide-format industry aims for 100 per cent diversion of waste goods to landfill with its new recycling programme
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arr Group has launched an ambitious recycling and recovery programme for the grand format segment of printing. Established from a manufacturing background in coated and specialty fabrics, Carr Group is a supplier to industries across Australia, New Zealand and North America, with one of its core sectors being the grand format digital print industry. As Carr Group business development and product manager Kai Hennig explained, “Across Australia, we warehouse goods in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. “By utilising our footprint and reach, it is from within the digital print sector that we will launch what 28
we believe to be the first environmental programme of its kind – our Green Initiative.” The company’s Green Initiative will represent a suite of individual programmes, starting with its Fossil Fuel Offset endeavour. The Green Initiative is designed to facilitate the diversion of specially developed and approved waste goods from landfill into a positive end-of-life solution. Hennig is unabashed in the end goal, noting, “Our target is clear – through collaboration with our valued stakeholders we want to achieve 100 per cent diversion of our approved industry goods away from landfill”. “We have structured the programme to have diverse solutions, capable of growing and evolving, and through continuous development to accommodate all industry goods. We hope by setting the platform, like minded organisations collaborate with us to achieve this.”
Fossil fuel offset Working with stakeholders, Carr Group plans to capture both in-house print production waste and end of
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life campaign goods. These waste goods can be converted into a Process Engineered Fuel (PEF), which is then supplied to facilities operating cement kilns and used as an alternative to coal. Carr is also aiming to be as transparent as possible throughout the process, reporting back regularly to its customers to demonstrate how it is effectively enhancing its corporate social responsibility. “Our stakeholders can leverage off this, for example, with printers able to clearly demonstrate to their clients, that they are environmentally responsible and offer various end-oflife solutions,” Hennig said. “We plan to capture as much commercially useable data as possible, giving valuable information back to our clients (and their end clients) that supports their corporate social responsibility programmes, for use as marketing material or within tender submissions. “We plan to report back to each client on a quarterly basis on volume diverted away from landfill, fossil fuel offset credits, and other valuable industry specific data, among other things.” sprinter.com.au