CU-Boulder's Printing and Copying Services has received certification as a Partner for a Clean Environment for its excellence in pollution prevention.
The PACE certification program is a no-cost, local, voluntary and non-regulatory program that provides a free pollution prevention assessment. It also provides technical assistance specific to a company's business needs, access to innovative financing opportunities and public recognition of the organization's efforts to improve environmental conditions at its work site.
Printing and Copying Services received PACE certification after fulfilling certain criteria that made its workshop more environmentally clean. Some of the guidelines for printers include the use of more soy- or vegetable-based inks, implementing a silver recovery unit for the film developing system, as well as recycling paper, photographic plates and film.
"Printing and Copying Services has always tried to operate with an awareness of environmental issues within the industry," said Newell Fogelberg, director of CU-Boulder Printing and Copying Services. "Boulder County's PACE Program for Printers has allowed us to focus our efforts on specific criteria and has affirmed many of the positive efforts we have been making for several years."
The PACE certification program is a partnership of the City of Boulder's Office of Environmental Affairs, the county's Environmental Health Department, the Boulder Energy Conservation Center and the Boulder Chamber of Commerce.
For more information call Sarah Brown at the City of Boulder, (303) 441-1914.