Changing our world

We are passionate and serious about making a positive change towards reducing our carbon footprint – from our office environment to the manufacturing process of our magazines. Our objective is to do this without reducing the printed quality of our work: we have invested considerable time and expertise to build a rigorous, robust and independently verifiable model that moves beyond the basic environmental accreditation schemes that most agencies subscribe to.

It won't be a quick fix, but we're already laying the foundations.

Our environmental policy

Redwood's objectives for client work by the end of 2008 are to accurately identify the total carbon footprint of work carried out on behalf of clients by Redwood and then to work with each client to significantly reduce the carbon footprint and use off-setting to bring the activity down to carbon neutrality.

We are working with the Carbon Neutral Company and the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management to estimate the carbon emissions associated with each activity in the supply-chain. During 2007 we completed our first carbon neutral magazines.

Reducing the carbon footprint
We work with our clients individually to meet their environmental priorities alongside our own. Our focus so far is on Redwood's use of consumables and how we adjust our use of paper and polythene wrap.

FSC accreditation
Redwood was one of the first customer publishing agencies to achieve FSC/PEFC accreditation in January 2007

Paper supplies
In 2007 70% of our paper was FSC accredited or recycled (or both). In 2008 our target is to seek full FSC/PEFC and NAPM accreditation across all Redwood titles

Polythene wrapping supplies
We are moving to oxo-biodegradable polythene wrapping across all our titles