| GREEN, it's in our name, Smart Levels Media has been striving to be eco-friendly since it's inception. Our efforts to have an environmentally friendly business have been bred into our company through the echelon of our management team and employees. We care, we educate, and we promote being environmentally sound. Smart Levels continually seeks new ways to make our eco-footprint smaller in and around our surroundings. Samplings of our efforts incorporated into our daily business to maintain an Eco-Friendly work place at Smart Levels Media: In and Around our Offices and Facility: - All Customers orders are taken electronically, no paper needed
- We recycle all paperwork generated through the business
- We recycle or donate outdated electronics and computers
- We use reclaimed water for Landscape irrigation
- Our employees recycle cans and bottles through our recycle program
- Lighting is setup to operate in sections, only lights that are needed are used
On the Production Floor: - Water-based chemicals are used instead of solvent based in many areas
- 100% of the ink used is "Soy Based" or "Eco-Friendly Renewable Oil-Based"
- We use Low VOC water-based Aqueous coatings
- Our UV coatings are 0 VOC
- Dirty petroleum products are recycled through reputable waste management companies
- *Our premium card stock paper is PEFC Certified
- *We print routinely on Recycled Stocks
- Paper saving press make-readies are performed each day, saving paper waste
- All waste paper that is produced from press and bindery work is recycled
- Efficiencies through technology is constantly updated, again to save waste
- Very low VOC's (volatile Organic Compounds) are maintained using Eco-friendly solvents
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 | The PEFC Council (Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1999, which promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests. |
PEFC is a global umbrella organization for the assessment of and mutual recognition of national forest certification schemes developed in a multi-stakeholder process. These national schemes build upon the inter-governmental processes for the promotion of sustainable forest management, a series of on-going mechanisms supported by 149 governments in the world covering 85% of the world's forest area. PEFC has in its membership 35 independent national forest certification systems of which 25 to date have been through a rigorous assessment process involving public consultation and the use of independent assessors to provide the assessments on which mutual recognition decisions are taken by the membership. These 25 systems account for more than 200 million hectares of certified forests producing millions of tons of certified timber to the market place making PEFC the world's largest certification system. The other national members schemes are at various stages of development and are working towards mutual recognition under the PEFC processes.  | The term "recycled paper" can have several meanings, but the most consistent definition is derived from our federal government's guidelines. Almost all state and local government and business procurement specifications now reference the Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines on recycled paper. The EPA guidelines require a minimum of 30% post-consumer content for uncoated printing and writing paper, and a minimum of 10% post-consumer content for coated papers. Other forms of paper, such as newsprint, corrugated packaging, tissue, and others, also require post-consumer content. The EPA doesn't consider mill broke, the unprinted trimming and converting scrap from paper mills themselves, recycled content.. |
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