As an industry, we're already doing quite a lot on environmental and corporate social responsibility issues, but we need to do more. The Climate Change Act has legally committed the UK to cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by 80% by 2050 based on 1990 levels. 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

EAG Meetings

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

EAG Meetings

The BA/PA EAG meets several times throughout the year. Members of the BA and PA and others working in the book industry are invited to submit items which they would like the Group to address by emailing sydney.davies@booksellers.org.uk

Publishers Association 29B Montague Street, London WC1B 5BW Tel: 020 7691 9191

Booksellers Association 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BA Tel: 020 7802 0802