As an industry, we're already doing quite a lot on environmental and corporate social responsibility issues, but we need to do more. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has committed the UK to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60% before 2050 to help tackle global warming. The EAG calls upon every publisher and bookseller to reduce their carbon emissions by at least 10% during the period covering January 2006 to December 2015.

Using this website

What publishers and booksellers are doing

Use this website to learn how to:

  • reduce carbon emissions
  • recycle more
  • reduce the use of packaging and plastic bags
  • reduce energy consumption and transport costs
  • reduce returns
  • source environmentally friendly paper and other products

This is what publishers and booksellers are doing at the moment*

Publishers:

  • 94% recycle
  • 87% use an external recycling service
  • 77% use private recycling companies
  • 84% reuse packaging and packing materials
  • 56% reuse electrical goods in line with the WEEE directive
  • 47% said that more than 90% of their paper output is recyclable
  • 35% have energy champions within their businesses

Booksellers:

  • 88% recycle
  • 62% use an external recycling service
  • 57% use the local council recycling service
  • 40% use private recycling companies
  • 95% reuse packaging and packing materials
  • 35% reuse electrical goods in line with the WEEE directive
  • 47% offer recycled paper bags
  • 41% offer recycled plastic bags
  • 23% offer cotton or jute bags
  • 66% only have doors open in fine weather
  • 18% keep doors closed [only 16% have doors open all the time]

* Source: BA Questionnaire to BA and PA members - % of respondents

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