The Greening of the Industry Now

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The Greening of the Industry Now!

• Michael Keene
• President / CEO
• The John Roberts Company

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The John Roberts CompanyHistory and Facility

• Privately held company established in 1951
• Current location since 1974
• Modern 226,000 square foot facility
• State of the art green facility

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Recycling efforts at JR

• The JR Sustainability Team is a
  cross-departmental group of employees
• Currently working on a project to increase the
  amount of material we recycle

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JR Environmental Stewardship

• Our Policy
• The John Roberts Company is committed to managing
  all of its operations in an environmentally sound
  manner.
• We involve our employees, our suppliers and our
  customers in the principle that to conduct
  business at the expense of the environment around
  us is simply unacceptable.
• Through awareness, understanding, education, and
  action we are minimizing our intrusion on the
  environment.

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Environmental Management System (EMS)

• Re-Use and Reduce
• Paper
• Environmental Materials
• Solvent Recycler Disposal
• Energy Reduction
• Ink
• Sustainable Certifications
• Sustainable Offerings
• Marketing Education

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Paper Re-Use

• Recycling Approximately 5460 tons
• Wood use minimum 96,768 trees
• Total energy 191,232 million BTU or enough to
  heat 2101 homes / year
• Greenhouse gases 28,742,663 lbs CO2 or 2610 cars
  / year
• Wastewater 88,788,790 gallons
• Solid Waste 11,405,264 lbs or 407 garbage
  trucks

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Paper REDUCE10 hot dogs 8 buns
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10 Hot Dogs 10 Buns

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Paper Reduce Minimize Waste
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Minimize Waste adds to your bottom line

• 2206.80 - Sustainable Size
• 700.00 - Post Press Cutting Savings
• 2908.80 TOTAL SAVINGS
• Plus 2710 lbs. saved from going into the waste
  stream.

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Solvent Recycler Solvent Disposal

• RE-USE
• 50 drums of waste solvent - sheetfed area.
• Recovered Reintroduced 10 drums of solvent back
  into the production areas
• Reducing our recycling costs and solvent
  purchases.
• AVING
• Minimum of 85 of hazardous waste disposal will
  be eliminated by onsite recycling
• REDUCTION
• Solvents shipped to outside vendors for disposal
• Being used in a fuel blending process and
  therefore kept out of any landfill
• Since last year - 60 reduction in our solvent
  disposal.

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Energy Reduction

• Reduce
• T8 Fluorescent Energy Saving Lighting
• Partnered with Xcel Energy
• Optimized compressed air system
• Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO)
• Burns excess VOC Provides energy
• Reduces overall energy consumption

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Energy Reduction

• Re-UE Windsource Program
• Customers indicate they want their jobs run on
  Wind Power
• John Roberts - purchases additional Windsource
  Energy(sold in 100-kilowatt-hour (kWh) blocks)
• Although it isnt possible to separate energy by
  sources, you are participating in the production
  of goods made in part with renewable energy.
• Dollar investment is relatively small - adding
  about 2 to a typical jobs cost
• John Roberts purchases 10 of electrical energy
  on our own power grid
• John Roberts is an EPA Green Power Partner

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Materials Reduction - Carpet

• Replaced 5,148 square feet of carpet
• Saved 12,870 -10 oz. bottles from landfills
• Used Nexterra carpet tile backing made from 35
  post-consumer content recycled water and soda
  bottles with an additional 50 from post-consumer
  recycled glass.

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Soy-based Ink

• Environment-friendly chemistry
• Outstanding printing properties
• Ink Systems, Inc

We are now looking at ways to recycle / reuse our
web process inks to reformulate black ink.
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Varnish in Totes vs. Kits

• Eliminate varnish kits
• Last year approx. 2000 kits used
• 14 skids of kits!
• JR in Totes vs. Kits will prevent
• 2 tons of plastic from going into a land fill
  each year

5700.00 savings each year
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Sustainable Certifications
1st Printer in MN to be TRI-CERTIFIED

• JR is proud to be the 2nd printer in MN to
  receive FSC certification by Smartwood
• SFI
• PECF

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Sustainable Accomplishments

• Carbon Neutral
• Recently completed scientific study of carbon
  footprint
• No atmospheric net gain in carbon emissions

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JR Environmental Achievements

• Green Star Award
• Best Workplace in America
• Twice Received the Governors Award for
  Excellence in Waste and Pollution Prevention
• Minnesota Environmental Initiative Award

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JR Environmental Achievements contd

• Industrial Environmental Achievement Award
• Member PIM Great Printer Environmental Initiative
• Member, Minnesota Waste Wise
• Partner, Clean Air Minnesota

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Initiatives Under Development

• ISO 14001
• Incorporate into our ISO 9001 system

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Water reduction in Prepress

• New Plate Setter / Processor
• Reusing water through watermizer
• Reducing water consumption of over 250,000
  gallons annually

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Marketing and Education
JR Notes - Environmental Issue
Target goes GREEN with RED. Target ran their
monthly employee newsletter on FSC coated stock
supplied by JR. JR utilized Windpower as energy
source to produce printed piece.
JR Website - Environmental Section
www.johnroberts.com
JR Workshops Environmental Symposium
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Additional Initiatives

• JR Employee Quality Recognition Program
  Sustainability Segment
• Promotes Cross-functional green teams to exchange
  ideas and share learnings
• Points based
• Workout Facility On-Site
• Employees do not have to travel elsewhere to
  exercise

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• How green are we?

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Questions
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Why Go Green?

• Ownership with strong sense of environmental
  stewardship
• Important to Employees
• Makes good business sense
• Differentiates our products and services
• Increasingly a requirement of our customers

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Our Environmental Plan

• Develop an Environmental Management Plan include
  an Environmental Policy
• Identify products, processes or general areas
  that have a significant impact on the environment
• Set up operational controls
• Make changes in chemical products, processes or
  activities so as to reduce environmental impact
• Checking and Corrective Action
• Management Review

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What can customers do? Costs?

• Use Recycled /or CoC certified paper
• Use Wind energy
• Adjust size of piece to best utilize sheet less
  waste
• Use online proofing system (Insite) save time
  and material
• Cost impact of green printing 2-10
• John Roberts continues to seek ways to keep costs
  controlled while reducing impact on environment

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Prioritizing Green Options

• Determine
• Desired end print quality (Bright white or earthy
  look)
• Budget
• Product availability
• Printers green capabilities
• Try whats available
• Recycled
• Chain of Custody (FSC, SFI, PEFC)
• Wind power alternative fibers
• Its more important to use options that are
  available to you rather than wait to find the
  perfect solution.

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Chain of Custody Certification

• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label cant be
  used with any other CoC label
• Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and
  Programme Endorsement for Forest Certification
  (PEFC) will allow labels to be used concurrently
• In most circumstances, the logo approval process
  takes less than one day.

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Sources Regulations Paper

• Regulations
• Printing Industry of MN
• EPA (Minnesota and Federal)
• Internet
• Paper
• http//www.fsccanada.org/fscpaper.htm
• http//www.fscus.org/paper/
• http//www.sfiprogram.org/paperprinting.cfm
• internet

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Direct mail

• Clean lists
• Reduce amount of landfill waste due to
  undeliverable products being destroyed
• Provide maximum deliverability
• Run a Move Update to ensure most current address
  per Post Office regulations
• Use recycled paper when possible
• Do it all in one location most projects can be
  handled at John Roberts, avoiding costly
  transportation charges incurred with outsourcing

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UV coating

• All UV inks and coating used at John Roberts are
  environmentally friendly
• 0 Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
• Completely recyclable

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Trees and Pulp

• A minimum of 3 trees are planted for each tree
  harvested
• Pulp sources
• Hardwood (spruce pine)
• Softwood (maple oak)
• Non-tree sources
• Fiber crops hemp, kenaf, jute and flax
• Agricultural Residues sugar cane husk, cereal
  straws (barley, oat, wheat, rice, rye)
• Textile and Cordage wastes cotton and linen
  scraps, old rope
• Wild plants wild grasses, sisal, bamboo

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Solar?

• Any options are open for the future

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What is deinking

• Before recycled paper can be used to manufacture
  new white grades of paper, the printing inks
  have to be removed to increase the whiteness and
  purity. A chemical process using alkali and
  detergents is used. The recovered paper is first
  dissolved in water and separated from the
  non-fiber impurities. The fibers are then
  progressively cleaned in order to obtain the pulp
  and during this stage the ink is removed. The
  greater the ink coverage, the more aggressive the
  de-inking process.

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Adhesives

• Adhesives used at John Roberts are VOC free