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Newsletter Printing – Effective Placement of Headlines – 10th August 2010
The size of the headline, along with the position of the article on a page, communicated the importance of the article.  When laying out your pages:

• place important headlines to the top of the pages
• span at least two columns with the headlines for your most important articles
• use the largest type size you’ve chosen for major headlines
• avoid reducing the type size of the headline to make the headline fit: reword it instead
• use a consistent typeface, type size and alignment

Maintain the maximum promotional punch of your writing by breaking long headlines strategically.  Keep adjectives on the same line with the accompanying noun.  Avoid ending a line with a preposition.

Instead of breaking the headline like this:

Up to Your Sleigh Bells in Christmas
Bills

Begin the second line with the preposition:

Up to Your Sleigh Bells
in Christmas Bills

Captions. When using a caption, place it under or to the side of the photograph.  Set it large enough type to be read easily by skimmers.  According to David Ogilvy, four times as many people read captions as body copy.

Pull quotes. Pull quotes on a page of all text add visual interest and give you another chance to capture readers.  Place pull quotes on the part of the page the eyes go to first, approximately at optical centre (in the middle column, just above mathematical center).

Subheads. If you have an interview written in question-and-answer format, the questions can work as subheads.  Set questions in bold, so readers can skim the questions and read the answers that interest them.

Peter Harrison is Joint Managing Director of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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Newsletter Printing – Target Your Audience With Visuals
When deciding which visuals to use and how to size them in relation to one another, consider your target audience.  Use subjects and scenes that your readers can relate to.  Visuals that always attract include:

• people doing something (using your products, at one of your events)
• before and after visuals
• children and animals
• a frame with a single element, versus multiple elements
• tight crops and zooms
• contrasting colors
• crisp focus
• varying levels of gray

Cropping Photographs.
Since most readers look at photographs first, use photographs and captions to convey your most important promotional point.  Pull the reader into the subject by cropping in on the subject you want to highlight.  Also, when showing customers, make the image of the customer as large as possible.

Creating silhouettes.  Another effect that adds interest to a photograph is silhouetting -  a cutout of part of a photograph.

Silhouetting is useful for showing people.  After all, most people aren’t square or rectangular.  Removing the background helps make people look more lifelike.  Use this effect to show people from within your company.  They’ll look approachable and personable.

Although silhouetting creates informal pages, keep in mind these types of photos lose some of their journalistic value.  (Newspapers only use silhouettes on their lighter features.)

Peter Harrison is Joint Managing Director of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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Print Buying Direct is the online Trading Name of The Printing House Ltd.  One of the UK’s leading quality printing companies for graphic design, short run digital printing, long run litho printing and large format colour printing. Based in Crewe, Cheshire (Cheshire Printers), in the North West of England – delivering to customers across the UK and Europe.

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Green Printing – Carbon absorption - 21st June 2010
The carbon adsorption process removes the volatile organic compounds entrained in the exhaust gases from the print dryers by absorbing them on to the surface of a bed of activated carbon. In principle, carbon adsorption involves tow main steps:

• Absorption
• Regeneration

However, for processes with very low concentrations of volatile organic compound contamination, it is possible to operate a carbon adsorption system utilising a non-reusable carbon bed, with the bed simply removed as it eventually becomes saturated with solvent and replaced.

The adsorption cycle involves the passage of the solvent-laden air through the bed of granular activated carbon. The solvent vapours are then selectively extracted from the air and accumulate on the surface of the inner passages of the carbon or are trapped in the myriad capillaries between the granules. The air leaving the carbon adsorption unit is therefore effectively stripped of solvent contaminants.

Over time, the carbon granules become saturated with solvent and require to be regenerated to restore them to their original adsorptive state. Several desorption techniques can be utilised to regenerate the saturate carbon including the use of team, a hot inert gas, or by means of a low pressure vacuum.

The most common method of regenerating a carbon bed involves the use of steam, with the steam/VOC mixture which results subsequently passed to a condenser where the appropriate compounds are separated. For water insoluble components such as benzene, toluene and hexane, a decantation separation process is utilised, whilst for water soluble components such as ethanol and acetone the use of a distillation process is preferred.

The efficiency of the carbon adsorption process is vey high, and its operating costs are much lower than those if incinerators. However, the system does have a number of disadvantages in operation in that it requires regular regeneration and its efficiency declines with use.

Peter Harrison is Joint Managing Director of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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• Green Printing – Contaminated wastes
• Green Printing – Photographic and litho plate wastes – Compliance with consent limits

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Green Printing – Thermal incineration – 16th June 2010
With a thermal incinerator, the exhaust gases from the print dryer are increased in temperature to around 750ºC. The gases are held at this temperature for a set time in the presence of sufficient oxygen and turbulence to ensure that the organic compounds within the exhaust gases oxidise to produce carbon dioxide wand water vapour.

The technique is capable of achieving VOC emission reductions of over 90%, although it does require an extremely high auxiliary fuel input and produces as a by-product significant quantities of carbon dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, both of which are damaging to the environment.

In general, to recue the level of fuel input required, an incinerator is normally fitted with a primary heat exchanger designed to pre-heat the dryer exhaust gases prior to entry into the incinerator combustion chamber.

Catalytic incineration
The incorporation of a catalyst with an incinerator provides a system capable of oxidising organic components to form carbon dioxide and water vapour at a much lower temperature than with a pure thermal incineration system.

The catalyst comprises a bed of precious metal (typically platinum or palladium) or base metals dispersed on base metal supports, with these taking the form of spherical pellets, ceramic rods, or as a ceramic/ metal honeycomb.

The efficiently of the catalytic incinerator is affected by a number of factors including the operating temperature, the space velocity, the concentration and type of the volatile organic compounds entrained in the exhaust gases, and the characteristic of the catalyst used. Typically, to achieve a VOC reduction efficiency of approximately 95%, the catalytic incinerator would operate at a temperature of around 350-420ºC.

Although catalytic incinerators are less expensive to run than thermal incinerators, their application is limited and their long term efficiency decreases significantly as the catalyst ages and requires replacement.

Peter Harrison is Joint Managing Director of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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For more free articles on Printing and Graphic Design see our Online Printing | Print Buying Direct Website.   For more information on printing and graphic design please see some of our recent blog articles;

• Green Printing – Emissions to air
• Green Printing – Contaminated wastes
• Green Printing – Photographic and litho plate wastes – Compliance with consent limits
• Green Printing – Transfer of waste

Print Buying Direct is the online Trading Name of The Printing House Ltd.  One of the UK’s leading quality printing companies for graphic design, short run digital printing, long run litho printing and large format colour printing. Based in Crewe, Cheshire (Cheshire Printers), in the North West of England – delivering to customers across the UK and Europe.

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Green Printing – Emissions to air – 14th June 2010

The introduction of the UK Environmental Protection Act during 1990 and the planned harmonisation of environmental control legislation throughout the member states of the European Community has focussed the printing industry’s attention upon the often ignored topic of pollution control.

In particular, both the current and the new legislation proposed requires that printing companies install recognised equipment to control and curb the discharge of solvent contaminants to atmosphere, meeting set standards and achieving such standards within an established and well-publicised timeframe.

However, for print companies now forced, probably for the first time, to look seriously at the issue of emissions control, the choice of which system to install is not straightforward one, with a greater variety of control technology now available than ever before, each claiming significant advantages and disadvantages over its competitors.

One thing is clear, however, and that is that no single control system can be recommended for all applications, with the final choice of department upon the type of printing process, the different substrates and inks used and the drying techniques applied, the election of an optimum system for each printing plant requires an inherent understanding of all these variables, complemented and environmental costs associated with the use of the many emission control techniques now available.

Indeed, the environmental impact associated with the use of each individual emission control technique is now being given due consideration both by those drafting the governing legislation and by those recommending and installing the appropriate control technology.

Clearly, there seems little long-term environmental benefit in using a system which, although effective at removing an immediate and easily identifiable contaminant, merely replaces it as a natural by-product of the cleaning process, with an equally harmful alternative or alternatives. It is for the reason that the Environmental Protection Act when drafted banded the emission control limits in order to promote the use of pollution control techniques which are in themselves environmentally benign.

The major printing techniques subject to the imposition of emission control legislation include:
•    Heat-set web offset
•    Rotogravure
•    Flexography
•    Screen
Those techniques are utilised for a wide range of substrates, involving a variety of ink formulations and drying processes. Each of these variables will contribute towards the type and quantity of volatiles organic compound (VOC) emitted to atmosphere; variables which dictate the choice of pollution control system for each application.

In general, within the printing industry, the following techniques of VOC emission reduction can be used:
Destructive
•    Thermal incineration
•    Catalytic incineration
•    Biological incineration
Non-destructive (i.e. solvent recovery)
•    Carbon adsorption
•    Condensing filtration
•    Absorption (oil scrubbing)
Substitution
•    Water-based inks
•    Radiation-curable inks
The emission controls techniques are most commonly used in printing industry are thermal and catalytic incineration, carbon absorption and condensing filtration. Each technique has a number of advantages and disadvantages when applied to exhaust emissions arising from the different printing processes and these must be taken into account when deciding upon the type of system to install.

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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• Green Printing – Photographic and litho plate wastes – Compliance with consent limits
• Green Printing – Transfer of waste
• Green Printing – Duty of Care- waste producers

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Green Printing – Contaminated wastes – 10th June 2010
Contaminated cleaning rags should either be sent for laundering or disposed of by a licensed company. These may fall within the special wastes category when contaminated with certain toxic or highly flammable materials.

Waste management options – the way forward
In view of rising costs printers should first look at ways of minimising or eliminating wastes by, for instance, switching to more efficient processes or managing existing processes as efficiently as possible. In-plant treatments such as fixer and water recycling and silver recovery should be considered as savings can be significant.

Preferred options are:

1)    minimise or eliminate waste
Plate/film and plate processors offer significant savings in energy, chemicals and water. It is essential that processors are adjusted properly to get the maximum mileage out of the chemicals.
All too often we find that customers discard process solutions long before they are exhausted. For instance, the performance of aqueous-based negative plate developers, which have improved enormously in recent years, is rarely achieved in practice. Usage rate is approximately 50m2 of plates per litre of developer. Average performance is usually around 20m2 per litre of developer.

Exactly the same occurs with film chemistry. The advantages of using high performance systems are frequently lost due to failure to maximise working parameters.

The moral of the story is- re-examine working practices, consult your supplier, don’t throw away because it’s Friday.

a) Press roller washes
The large volumes of waste and the high cost of disposal by incineration make it worthwhile looking at alternative methods by cleaning rollers. There is equipment on the market which virtually eliminates the use or organic solvents and removes the ink by the use of high pressure water jets. The effluent contains water, ink residues and small quantities of detergent which could be disposed to sewers once the ink residues are removed.

2) Recycling
The technology of recycling photographic chemicals and revering sliver from chemical and film waste is well established and it is common practice to send fixers and film to specialist companies for sliver recovery.

The returns on the silver values are diminishing as the reclamation companies are facing increasing environmental costs.

It therefore makes send to look at in house recycling systems. Most major manufacturers have an impressive array of hardware to offer.

Reduction in wastes can be considerable with 80 to 85% reduction on fixers and approximately 60% savings on developers. Water and disposal costs are rising and water recycling with savings of around 80% is looking attractive for the larger user. Paybacks can be impressive. Customers are finding that this can sometimes be achieved within two years.

a)    Packaging waste
In anticipation of EC directives packaging, manufacturers are already taking steps to recue package volumes and to make it more environmentally acceptable. Re-use of smaller plastic containers is not practicable due to fears of cross contamination. However, we now have a recyclable plastic bottle where every component, including the label, is made out of the same plastic.

Containers of hazardous liquids have to meet stringent performance requirements and currently it is only technically possible to use 30% of recovered plastic in the recycled bottle. There remains a problem of finding suitable outlets for the remaining 70% of recovered plastic.

Container recycling is not well advanced in the UK but the situation will undoubtedly improve with time.

Other ways of reducing packaging include the use of larger containers, bulk delivery to tanks on customer sites and supplying process chemicals in powder form which greatly reduces the packaging and makes it easier to dispose of.

B) Waste collection services
Manufacturers cannot by law collect and treat customer’s waste unless they register themselves as licensed carriers and disposal contractors. It makes sense for industry to work in conjunction with specialist companies which have the facilities and know-how.

Milk-round collections schemes are now starting to appear in the UK for the collection and disposal of photographic wastes. These schemes work on a voucher system where the customer buys a disposal voucher at the same time that he purchases the product. The way forward is to provide a comprehensive service dealing with all printing wastes, including packaging. Many manufacturers are currently looking at the logistics of such a scheme.

There is no doubt that considerable progress has already been made and that if the industry gets its act together significant reductions in waste can be achieved. We can also anticipate that performance will continue to improve as demand for environmentally acceptable technology increases.

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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We have great online print prices Print Buying Direct are UK market Leaders in Leaflet Printing | Brochure Printing. For more free articles on Printing and Graphic Design see our Online Printing | Print Buying Direct Website. For more information on printing and graphic design please see some of our recent blog articles;

• Green Printing – Photographic and litho plate wastes – Compliance with consent limits
• Green Printing – Transfer of waste
• Green Printing – Duty of Care- waste producers
• Green Printing – Management of printing wastes
  

Print Buying Direct is the online Trading Name of The Printing House Ltd.  One of the UK’s leading quality printing companies for graphic design, short run, long run and large format colour printing. Based in Crewe, Cheshire (Cheshire Printers), in the North West of England – delivering to customers across the UK and Ireland.

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• Web revolution allows Crewe to ‘Print the World’

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Green Printing – Photographic and litho plate wastes – Compliance with consent limits – 27th May 2010

Photographic wastes

Developers
Frequently discharged to sewers, but pH of used developer may be on the borderline or juts outside permitted pH limit. May require pre treatment/ neutralisation with acid or acidic waste before discharge.

Fixers
pH acidic, outside permitted range. Discharge of used fixers restricted due to the high sliver content. Fixers usually sent for sliver recovery. Large users should consider installing in plant fixer recycling and sliver recovery units.

Plate-making wastes
Positive plate wastes
Processor wastes are rapidly eliminated at biological treatment plants, but pH lies outside the permitted range. The pH should be adjusted by the addition of acid prior to discharge, or sent away to be a licensed waste treatment company for disposal.

Negative plate wastes.
Aqueous developers

The majority of negative plate developers are waster-based and contain no organic solvents, but you should confirm this with your suppliers. Disposal to sewers is not restricted as the wastes meet current UK limits and EC environmental criteria tests. Waste is biodegradable and does not inhibit the action of bacteria at sewage treatments plants.

Solvent developers
Solvent-based developers now only have a relatively small share of the UK market. This waste should not be discharged to sewers but sent to a licensed waste treatment company for recovery of the solvent or for disposal by incineration.

Printing waste
Blanket and roller washes

Most press waste contains organic solvents and ink residues which present major disposal problems as they should not be discharged to sewers. The volume of waste frequently greatly exceeds the volume of chemical products used, as waste contains large quantities of rinse water.

It was common practice in some parts of the UK for this waste to be disposed at landfill sites. This practice has not been abruptly terminated in view of stricter controls placed on landfill sites. The only method now is to incinerate the waste at greatly increased cost.

Fount solutions
Generally not a problem as fount solutions is usually absorbed on paper or evaporates. Fount systems periodically have to be cleaned and the sludge disposed by incineration. Alcohols should not be discharged to sewers.

Green products
Due to concern about workers’ safety and ozone depletion caused by emissions of organic solvents to air, great strides have been made to eliminate CFCs and chlorinated solvents and replace them with vegetable based products. This is to be applauded and is definitely a way forward, but is should be remembered that these green products are still organic solvents, the residues contain inks and printers should not assume that the wastes can be discharged.

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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• Green Printing – Biologically oxidising substances
  

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Green Printing – Transfer of waste - 18th May 2010
Waste can now only be removed from site by a licensed carrier and stored, treated, recycled or disposed at licensed facilities.

Each type of waste must be documented. This is done by means of a written transfer note, normally provided by the waste carrier or disposal contractor. Copies of the transfer notes must be kept for at least two years and are subject to inspection by the local waste regulations authority. Failure to maintain proper records is an offence.

Transfer notes should carry the following information:

• Description of the waste. This must accurately describe the wastes e.g. paper, wood, plastic containers, etc. it is not permissible to give a vague description such as ‘mixed waste’.
• Packaging- e.g. number of drums, weight etc.
• Details of firm collecting waste: name of person collecting the waste. Name and address of company, designation- e.g. waste carrier, plus registration number.
• Address where waste was collected, date of transfer. The note should be signed by both parties- the waste producer and by the person collecting the waste.

There is also a requirement to inform the carrier of any problems or hazards associated with handling the waste. Information on the wastes can be obtained by reference to product safety data sheets or from your supplier.

Multiple consignments
In the case where wastes are collected regularly it is permissible to have a single transfer note to cover multiple consignments shipped over a maximum period of one year. This is only valid provided the nature of the waste remains unchanged and that all other details on the transfer note also remain unchanged during that period.

It goes without saying that wastes placed in the waste containers should match up with the description given on the transfer note. This can be a problem where wastes are segregated, for instance when waste metal or paper is stored separately from other wastes. It is by no means unusual to find that wastes can end up in the wring container. Invariably this is not noticed until the waste arrives at the disposal facility.

Not only does this cause unnecessary expense in sorting and disposing of the waste, it is also a criminal offence by both parties. In serious cases, the carrier runs the risk of having his vehicle confiscated. Understandably, waste carriers could become extremely reluctant to do business if problems persist.

It is clearly good practice to impress on employees exactly how and why wastes should be segregated and placed in the correct containers.

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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• Green Printing – Duty of Care- waste producers
• Green Printing – Management of printing wastes
• Green Printing – Biologically oxidising substances
  

Print Buying Direct is the online Trading Name of The Printing House Ltd.  One of the UK’s leading quality printing companies for graphic design, short run, long run and large format colour printing. Based in Crewe, Cheshire (Cheshire Printers), in the North West of England – delivering to customers across the UK and Ireland.

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Green Printing – Duty of Care- waste producers - 17th May 2010
Obligations are placed on everyone who is involved in the waste chain to manage controlled waste in a responsible manner.

• To ensure that no other person in the waste chain unwittingly breaks the Duty of Care requirements due to your actions or negligence.
• To prevent the escape of waste on your premises or during transfer.
• To ensure the waste is transferred to an authorise person such as a licensed carrier.
• To ensure that controlled wastes are properly documented and that sufficient information is given in writing to comply with Duty of Care requirements.
• To keep records of the wastes transferred and make them available on request to the authorities.

Responsibility placed on printers who produce the waste are not particularly onerous and should not be a problem for printing companies who maintain good housekeeping practices.

• Storage: wastes should be stored safely, managers should ensure that waste is packed properly and does not escape on site, or beyond the perimeter of the site.
• Liquid wastes should be stored with particular care as spillages to drains or soil can cause serious pollution problems which can be extremely costly for you to clean up.
• Large storage containers should be stored on an impervious hard staining area which is bounded by a low wall, or small containers on a drip tray to contain spillages. Extra requirements apply to the storage of special and highly flammable wastes.
• When security is a problem, for instance where there is no perimeter fence, it is recommended that lockable skips are used. May printing shops have no external storage areas, in which case the quantity of waste stored on site should be kept to a minimum?

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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• Green Printing – Management of printing wastes
• Green Printing – Biologically oxidising substances
• Green Printing – Chemical factors

Print Buying Direct is the online Trading Name of The Printing House Ltd.  One of the UK’s leading quality printing companies for graphic design, short run, long run and large format colour printing. Based in Crewe, Cheshire (Cheshire Printers), in the North West of England – delivering to customers across the UK and Ireland.

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Green Printing – Management of printing wastes
The legacy if environmental damage left behind by former industries and the evidence that industry and society is continuing to pollute the planet at an increasing rare have left to demands for tighter controls. As a result, industry has, during the last 10 years, had to meet the challenges posed by an increasing volume of EC and UK legislation aimed to preventing further damage to the environment and ensuring that the polluter pays for the damage he has caused.

Environmental issues in the UK were focused sharply in 1990 with the introduction of the Environmental Protection Act. Since then a wide range of new regulations has been introduced under the umbrella of the Act which radically changes they way industry will have to manage its environmental affairs in future. There is much to come.

Nowhere is the effect of these regulations more apparent than on the issue of how industry manages its waste.

We all know about waste, all industries produce it, yet until recent years waste was not considered to be a major issue. Disposal was cheap, and printing waste either ended up in the sewers or was taken to the local landfill requirements relating to the management of wastes.

Why manage waste?
The Controlled Waste Regulations which came into force on the 1st April 1992 greatly extend the range of wastes which are subject to legal controls. The Duty of Care Regulations which came into force on the same sate impose obligations on all people involved in the waste chain to manage controlled wastes in a responsible manner. Failure to comply is a criminal offence which can result in prosecutions and fines. There is every indication that the authorities are monitoring waste movements closely and are prepared to prosecute.

At the same time, disposal costs, which have been rising steadily in recent years, are now escalating dramatically as tighter restrictions are placed on the operation of waste storage, treatment and disposal sites. Disposal facilities are becoming more difficult to find, no-one wants landfill tips or waste incinerators in their back yard. It is therefore important that companies should know the waste they produce, understand their legal obligations and have a clear understanding of the costs involved in managing their waste.

Controlled waste and Duty of Care
The Environmental Protection Act of 1990, under these regulations were made, defines waste in the broadest possible terms which can lead to uncertainty and misunderstanding. The courts have taken the line that waste should be defined from the viewpoint of the person who actually produces or disposes of the material.

For instance, would you regard the material discard as:

A waste, scrap an effluent or unwanted material arising from a process? Or is it contaminated, broken, worn out or spoiled material which is no longer suitable for its original purpose? If the answer to any of these is yes- its waste.

The controlled waste regulations define household, industrial and commercial wastes which are subject to regulatory control and to which the Duty of Care requirements apply. In practice this includes all wastes that the printing and graphic arts industry are likely to produce. Many materials which would not normally be considered waste come within this definition, for instance, scrap metal or chemicals which are sent away for recovery. Building and demolition waste arising from work carried out on your premises is also controlled waste.

Special wastes
Certain types of hazardous waste such as highly flammable solvents or corrosive wastes are subject to the Control of Pollution (Special Wastes) Regulations of 1980. These wastes are now subject to the Duty of Care requirements in addition to the conditions which apply under the special waste regulations.

To be continued…

Peter Harrison is Joint MD of The Printing House Ltd, and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

NEW: We now sell Large Poster Printing and Banner printing online (A1 Posters, A0 Posters etc) and Banner Stands.

We have great online print prices Print Buying Direct are UK market Leaders in Leaflet Printing | Brochure Printing. For more free articles on Printing and Graphic Design see our Online Printing | Print Buying Direct Website. For more information on printing and graphic design please see some of our recent blog articles;

• Green Printing – Biologically oxidising substances
• Green Printing – Chemical factors
• Green Printing – Waste

Print Buying Direct is the online Trading Name of The Printing House Ltd.  One of the UK’s leading quality printing companies for graphic design, short run, long run and large format colour printing. Based in Crewe, Cheshire (Cheshire Printers), in the North West of England – delivering to customers across the UK and Ireland.

NEW Product Alert – we now sell Exhibition Stands, Pop Up display stands and A Boards

See Our Latest Press Release about our Web to Print Solution.  See us on the RED TIE Web to Print site

• Print Buying Direct is the UK’s leading Web-to-print Printing Company
• The Customer Experience just gets Better and Better at Print Buying Direct
• Web revolution allows Crewe to ‘Print the World’

We have just launched 2 new brands – keep an eye out in the coming months for;

Cheap Banner Stands and Premium Banner Stands

See Our latest press Releases Digital printing in Cheshire,

Crewe Printers in UK First

Also Digital printing in just 15 Minutes

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