Sustainability

HERE IS WHAT KIRKWOOD IS DOING TO HELP OUR PLANET

It’s up to all of us to do our part in preserving and restoring our EARTH. Kirkwood is an environmentally-focused company, here are some of the efforts we make to fulfill our commitment to the planet:

January 1st, 2021 - December 31st, 2021

Materials Recovered (in tons)

Kirkwood continually works to:

Our water and energy conservation program includes:

Reduce waste and materials consumption.
Reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Reduce water consumption and enhance water re-use.
Reduce the total environmental impact of our printing, packaging & processes.
Support recycling and composting (as possible) to the ability of our products.
Work with customers to develop printing & packaging solutions that meet cost and performance expectations, while optimizing materials and energy use.
Minimize the environmental impact to individuals and communities throughout the life cycle of our product.
Recycling bins for plastic and aluminum cans are installed throughout in all locations.
Plastic straws have been replaced with paper straws to avoid endangering the ocean and marine species.
The use of updated energy-efficient equipment.
An established system for lights off and thermostats raised in all facilities and office spaces.
All paper waste, aluminum plates, skids, ink waste, chemicals are recycled.
All cardboard locally recycled for reuse.

ENVIRONMENTAL SAVINGS - 2021

Barrels of Oil Trees Electricity Tons of CO2 Gallons of Water All of Materials

0 1,317 436,773 77 542,094 120,857

ENVIRONMENTAL SAVINGS - TO DATE

Barrels of Oil Trees Electricity Tons of CO2 Gallons of Water All of Materials

0 10,429 8,782,555 3,569 16,786,442 2,158,956

We have formed excellent relationships with material suppliers who are continually innovating to be able to provide materials that are recyclable and biodegradable.
Sustainable materials are becoming more widely available (and also more diverse) meaning the aesthetics of your printing doesn’t have to be compromised in order to be kinder to the planet.

CERTIFIED

Kirkwood is committed to protecting the environment.
Sustainable digital and offset and wide-format = beautiful print. Making more from less. FSC® and SFI® certified. We can advise you on carbon foot-printing your publications, writing environmental attribution statements and reducing your print volumes.

PAPERS

We always recommend clients choose certified papers from well-managed forests. The criteria for these papers are to conserve biological diversity and ancient woodlands, protect indigenous groups and combat climate change. One day, we hope sustainable paper sources will be mandatory in the print industry.

UNLIKELY EFFICIENCIES

Transitioning to an electronic job processing system might seem like an unlikely sustainability initiative. But Kirkwood crunched the numbers and found that this small change could save significant volumes of paper and energy. We recently reached 500,000 processed with our Ktrack™ Network, a system that digitizes project information and vendors’ billing files. To date, we have saved 5 million sheets of paper and enough energy to drive a car more than 45,000 miles, as well as increasing invoice processing speed and decreasing errors.

Enel X - DEMAND RESPONSE PROGRAM

Enel X helps hundreds of organizations throughout New England, save on energy costs, and mitigate carbon emissions with demand response. We are audited twice a year (summer/winter), on a given day we are asked to reduce our power load by a certain % for x number of hours.
Common reduction examples include:
> Reduce non-essential lighting
> Modify manufacturing processes
> Adjusting HVAC equipment

ONE WORLD. ONE COMMITMENT.​