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Professional Security has planet-saving idea in the bag

by Mark Rowe

It’s been a part of Professional Security Magazine and indeed numberless other business publications for as long as anyone can remember – every month, the print mag lands through letterboxes and on desks; inside a plastic bag. The idea; those it’s addressed to – or even colleagues who might fancy to snaffle the copy and have a read themselves!? – see the cover and are more inclined to take the magazine out of a transparent cover, than if it’s sealed inside an envelope.

Any ‘returns’, of magazines that go back to Professional Security because the receiver has moved house or job, or no longer works in or has an interest in private security, go to Liz Lloyd. As the pile of those bags grew, she asked magazine MD Roy Cooper if he was in a position to do something about it. He did want to do something about it, and it has turned out that through the printer Manson Group in St Albans, he is in a position to be more friendly to the environment.

The printer is offering a new product, Polyair, described as 100 per cent recyclable and a ‘carbon positive’ material. Polyair, made from sugar cane, will be in use from our August print issue, as an alternative to the current polyfilm-bag. Will you notice the difference? You’ll have to keep the bag from the July 2018 or other previous issue to find out.

Roy Cooper said of the decision to switch the type of plastic: “It’s going to cost more money; not a lot more money. It’s a minor thing that we can do towards our bit to saving the planet.”

While Professional Security hears from readers that they are still appreciative of having a print copy – paper after all has something going for it, as it’s been in use for thousands of years, and printing only for hundreds, and both are still going strong – if you prefer, you can read the latest online edition of the monthly print magazine, and issues going back a couple of years, on the ‘magazine‘ part of the website. If you are serious enough about counting carbon miles and footprint the like, you would be thereby saving on paper altogether – except that everything takes from the environment, including the tablet or other device in your pocket or on your table!?

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