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SNAPSHOTS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION

Our company's sustainability efforts are company-wide.
The following are two examples of how two of our staff members are making a difference in our community.

Ian Huckstepp Charmaine Duxfield

Ian has been with Excel Digital for over 16 Charmaine always has an eye out for something
years. He started working at NZ Print before the that can be given a second life as a teaching aid
company became Excel Digital and has been a for local children, whether paper for her local
steadying influence throughout the years. primary school or corrugated cardboard for arts
and crafts at a nearby kindergarten.
Ian has quietly introduced numerous
environmental initiatives since his early years Charmaine also champions Excel Digital’s
with the company. Examples include setting programme to reuse paper wrapping as packing
up battery and fluorescent bulb recycling material, diverting the wrapping from the
programmes and collecting all food waste from landfill. About her recycling work, Charmaine
staffrooms to take home for composting. In his says she is “giving them one more life before
quiet, understated way, Ian says he is simply they get to the dump.”
doing his part to “keep it out of the bins”.

Ian achieved notoriety when he was identified
as the planter of a small Pohutukawa tree that
mysteriously appeared in a postage-stamp piece
of land outside NZ Print (the tree still thrives).

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