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PROJECTS Our Environment
Toitu Enviromark Gold Ongoing commitment to reduce our
environmental impact
Excel Digital has been an Enviromark Gold certified
company since 2017. We are always looking for ways in which we can
reduce our impact on the environment.
To achieve gold certification, we have demonstrated
that we have developed and implemented a • In early 2022 we installed a CANON varioPRINT
comprehensive plan to manage and measure our iX printing press. This press, which uses water-
environmental impacts and have strategies to prevent based inks, enabled us to decommission five
or reduce these impacts. toner-based presses. The water-based ink of the
iX produces odourless prints with no disposables
that are hazardous.
• We identified that we use 26kms of plastic packing
tape each year to seal cardboard boxes. We
Chain of Custody certification researched alternative, compostable or recyclable
tape but could not source any that was not
Excel Digital is working towards chain-of-custody prohibitively expensive. We continue to look for an
certification and is committed to being certified by the alternative option.
end of 2022.
• Each year we send about fifteen thousand courier
Chain-of-custody certification guarantees forests are bags across Aotearoa. In 2022 we switched from
managed sustainably, protecting their future for our recycled plastic bags to using bags made from
mokopuna. It also ensures the protection of the social cornstarch that are home-compostable.
and economic well-being of all workers involved in
producing the product. • We print PVC identification cards for several
of our customers and have recently sourced
biodegradable cards that will degrade in a landfill.
We will be making these cards available to our
customers in late 2022.
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