Sustainability

• PIA Sustainability Resources
• P2Rx Lithographic Printing Topic Hub
• P2Rx Flexographic Printing Topic Hub
• "Responsible Paper Sourcing"
• "Environmental Paper Choices - Beyond FSC, SFI or PEFC"
• Calculating Your Facility's Carbon Footprint - First in a Series Documenting Plant Sustainability Performance, Flexo Magazine, August 2011.
• Calculating Your Facility's Carbon Footprint - Scope 2 - Indirect Emissions from Purchased Electricity, Flexo Magazine, September 2011
• Calculating Your Facility's Carbon Footprint - Scope 1 - Direct Emissions, Flexo Magazine, October 2011, Flexo Magazine, October 2011
• Calculating Your Facility's Carbon Footprint - Scope 3 - Indirect Emissions, Flexo Magazine, November 2011

Sustainability Certifications

Sustainable Green Printer Certification

Tag & Label Institute’s L.I.F.E. Certification (Label Initiative for the Environment)

Calculators & Tools

P2 GHG Calculator: The P2 GHG Calculator calculates GHG emission reductions from electricity conservation, green energy, fuel and chemical substitutions with lower GHG-intensities, water conservation, and improved materials and process management in the chemical manufacturing sector. 

P2 Cost Calculator:  The P2 Cost Calculator calculates cost savings associated with reduced costs for hazardous inputs in a facility process, reduced costs for handling hazardous waste, reductions in annual air permitting fees that are based on actual emissions, reduced water discharge treatment costs based on gallons of discharged, reduced charges for water usage, reduced fuel costs, and reduced costs for electricity

Gallons to Pounds Converter:  This is designed to provide conversions from units commonly encountered in business to units for P2 Program measures. 

Conservatree
 This website provides information on environmentally-preferable papers and resources designed to help manage paper recycling.

Canopy Ecopaper Database
Database of environmentally friendly paper in North America.

AIRMaster+
A free downloadable software that helps users analyze energy use and savings opportunities in industrial compressed air systems

The Value of Print
A resource for printers to educate print buyers and promote print as an environmentally and socially responsible media.

The Green Guide by Printing Industries of America (PIA)  
 The Green Guide gives step by step guide for printers to learn how to implement sustainable practices and become a “green” printer.  Full access to the guide is available to PIA members only.

Environmental Planning Tool by the Direct Mail Association (DMA) 
DMA’s committee on environment and social responsibility created this tool to assist organizations with evaluating environmental practices, meeting the DMA’s environmental performance standards, and generating an environmental policy.

The Lean and Environmental Toolkit by U.S. EPA (
This EPA toolkit offers practical techniques and strategies that can help make environmentally protective lean decisions a routine task of your business operations.

Fact Sheets & Case Studies

• Assessing Compressed Air Needs
• Inappropriate Uses of Compressed Air
• Compressed Air System Audits
• Pressure Drop & Controlling System Pressure
• Maintenance of CA Systems for Peak Performance
• Compressed Air System Controls
• Compressed Air System Leaks
• Packaged Compressor Efficiency Ratings
• Compressed Air System Economics
• Heat Recovery with Compressed Air Systems
• Proven opportunities at the Component Level
• Compressed Air Project Improves Efficiency and Production at Harland Publishing Facility
• Compressed Air System Retrofit Reduces Energy Costs at a Newspaper Printing Facility
• Compressed Air System Retrofit Reduces Energy Costs at a Newspaper Printing Facility
• Two Sides
A non-profit organization created to promote the responsible production and use of print and paper and to improve sustainability standards and practices.
• Ecycling - USEPA website with information on reducing and recycling  electronic waste.

Articles

• Environmental Paper Choices - Beyond FSC, SFI or PEFC
  This article discusses the popular forest certification programs available for use in a paper procurement policy, shortcomings of the standards, and other options for printers to show customers an environmentally responsible product.
• The Lacey Act
  This article describes the declaration requirements and enforcement of The Lacey Act , which prohibits the obtainment, use, or possession of paper made from fiber from illegal sources.
• Responsible Paper Sourcing
  This article presents printers with information on why responsible paper sourcing is important for sourcing paper products.
• Compressed Air and Sustainability
  This article describes the inefficiency related to the use of compressed air in printing operations, as well as steps printers can take to run a more sustainable compressed air system.
• The Truth about Print vs. Electronic Communication
  This article aims to educate people about the environmental shortcomings of electronic communication and to set the record straight that electronics are not an environmentally superior replacement for printed communication.