Continuous Commitment and Improvement
Continuous Commitment and Improvement 2010
Presented at The Lincoln Centre, London on 8 June 2010 by Sir Anthony Cleaver, President of BCE Environmental Leadership Awards.
Seacourt Ltd
A strategy for achieving zero waste to further educe the environmental footprint of Seacourt Ltd
Sir Anthony Cleaver presenting a BCE Major Commendation to Jim Dinnage, Seacourt Ltd.
Seacourt is a company that specialises in using the most advanced environmentally sympathetic printing processes. It employs 19 people and had a turnover of over £1.6 million in 2009/10.
Seacourt holds ISO 14001 (1998), EMAS (1999) is carbon neutral and powered by 100% renewable energy. It is recognised by a leading American printing expert as being one of the top three environmental waterless offset printers in the world. As well as printing by waterless offset, thereby eliminating the enormous use of water and alcohol (or harmful substitutes) required by conventional lithographic printers, Seacourt installed a new machine to recirculate water used in the platemaking process. This has reduced annual water use from 120,000 litres to 420 litres.
Seacourt has further reduced its, and its customers’, environmental footprint by embarking on a zero waste mission. In 2001, despite recycling paper and aluminium printing plates, the company was still sending 343,200 litres of waste to landfill annually. As from October 2009, all materials entering Seacourt leave the building in 1 of 3 ways: as finished product, as material for recycling or as material to be re-used in some other form. Therefore, Seacourt has achieved its goal of zero waste to landfill and it believes that no other commercial printer of its size in Britain, and probably the world, has managed to achieve this. The extensive list of items recycled includes tea bags and other food waste, which are put in a wormery, the resultant fertiliser is offered to customers and employees.
Seacourt exemplifies what even quite small businesses can achieve if they embark on – and remain committed to - an environmental improvement programme.
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To find out more about this project, please contact:
jimdinnage@seacourt.net
www.seacourt.net