The UN warns about deceptive tactics behind environmental claims: Greenwashing is a significant obstacle in the fight against climate change. By convincing the public that a company or other organization is doing more to protect the environment than it actually is, greenwashing promotes false solutions to the climate crisis that delay and divert attention from […]
Electronic communication is often presented as a “green” alternative to paper. Emails, cloud storage, or paying bills and managing accounts online offer fast, cheap and efficient alternatives to paper-based communication and record-keeping — but it’s becoming harder to ignore the high environmental cost of the constantly expanding digital infrastructure behind them, with rising energy consumption
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In its simplest definition, the circular economy is a system focused on recycling, renewing and reusing valuable resources. For this reason, you determine paper’s place in the circular economy: when you use a paper bag or reach for a product packaged in paper, you’re playing an important role in this new type of economy. How
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Comic books were once among the best-selling titles of their era, reaching the widest readership through secondhand circulation as well. In the seventies, we had comics printed weekly in runs of one to two hundred thousand copies. These included licensed, largely American-origin comics alongside domestic titles that competed with them. The eighties were the peak
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By Holland Haiis (*) Ever heard of a “digital detox”? It means staying away from your devices for an extended period — maybe a day, a weekend, or perhaps a week. Screen fatigue is real. While digital tools help us accomplish more than we ever imagined, we’re also recognising it’s time to strike a bit
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Not so long ago, the printing industry stood at a crossroads, facing predictions of its imminent decline. As digital advertising surged and online content proliferated, many predicted print media would fade into oblivion. Conventional wisdom held that print media was on the verge of becoming obsolete, swept aside by the tidal wave of the digital
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In the age of digital media, the importance of print is often underestimated. But we’re experiencing a renaissance of print — thanks to digital! The impressive scale and potential of print Let’s look at the numbers: according to Statista, the music industry’s annual global turnover is $41 billion. That’s impressive. But it’s small compared with
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Size matters in the printing industry. Everyone remembers the A4 exercise book from school. A colleague in the office might be looking for a B3 envelope. Or a DL brochure might drop into the mailbox. But while these terms are familiar to everyone in the printing industry, paper format names are a jumble of letters
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By Julia Simsion This time last year, I was asked to write a blog post about my love of the printed book. And now, with physical book sales rising for a third consecutive year, is there a better reason to revisit why I remain committed to not buying an e-book? From a professional point of
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We previously wrote about the “revenge” of print, part of a broader trend dubbed “the revenge of analogue.” What’s driving this phenomenon is the sense that digital moved so fast and so far into every corner of our experience that only now are we truly stepping back to critically consider where analogue technologies, like paper,
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