Northcliffe Waste Management Contract For J&G
Thursday 1st June 2006
The Northcliffe Group has awarded a waste management contract to J&G Environmental, Blandford-based specialists in the recycling and disposal of printers waste. Northcliffe is one of the UK's largest regional newspaper publishers.
The 12 month rolling contract means that J&G will collect, recycle and dispose of all general print waste, including litho plates and used chemicals, from the Group's eight print centres in Plymouth, Staverton, Gloucester, Hull, Grimsby, Stoke, Leicester and Derby.
J&G's customer care manager Richard Spreadbury said: "We have worked closely with Northcliffe for some time and are very pleased to have been awarded the contract to carry on helping the Group to ensure it meets its environmental responsibilities".
John Kiely, General Manager - The Northcliffe Press Plymouth, said: "The new contract reflects J& G's consistently professional and proactive approach to helping us meet the environmental challenges facing the printing industry. With their assistance we have recently achieved ISO14001 certification and we have an on-going programme of improvements designed to further improve our environmental performance."
Effective waste management is an important element in Northcliffe's commitment to make sure the Group has procedures in place minimise environmental impact. The Group's Westcountry Publications and Northcliffe Press Plymouth won the CSR-Environmental Newspaper Company of the Year in the Production Journal 2006 Newspaper Awards.
J&G looks after the waste disposal needs of around 1500 UK print companies. This includes the disposal of 135,000 litres of printers' liquid waste weekly, the annual collection of over 7,500 tonnes of aluminium litho plates for reuse in the printing and motor industry, recycling the entire content of thousands of fluorescent light tubes, the reclamation of silver flake from photographic negatives and fixer and huge amounts of plastic waste, wooden pallets and CD's which is reused in a range of useful products.
The company currently recycle or reuse nearly 85 percent of the waste they collect and is aiming to achieve 93 percent in the near future.
