Prioritising Sustainable Waste Management Foundry Press, based in Horsham, West Sussex, has paid particular attention to the sustainable management of its waste, which it sees as a priority area. Foundry’s environmental management has impressively grown to maturity over the past ve years to a point where it can claim ISO 9001/2000 and ISO 14001 accreditations together with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and PEFC Council certications. The company has also been certied as being Carbon Balanced. One of the company’s rst decisive steps on the path to greening its commercial activities was to recognise that the waste it created was not being handled in a sustainable way. “We had no recycling policy,” said Foundry director Bruce Phillips. “We just had a very large skip. Paper was recycled

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