Banner Box - Our Environmental Policy

Banner Box is committed to minimising our environmental impact, we strive to ensure materials are recycled where possible and equipment is energy efficient.

Aluminium

We manufacture many of our flagpole and banner support systems in aluminium, 100% of scrap material is recycled.  Customers can also return their un-wanted used goods to us for recycling. Recycled aluminium uses only around 5% of the energy used to make new metal, and can be recycled time and again without loss of quality.  Recycled aluminium produces only 5% of the CO2 emissions as compared with new production and reduces the waste going to landfill.

Steel

Our waste and scrap steel is sorted and separated for recycling, it is returned for manufacture of new metal.  Steel scrap is essential in the process of making new steel and can be recycled indefinitely without loosing its quality.  Recycled steel uses only 25% of the energy required for new metal and there are substantial reductions in use of raw materials, water and air-bore pollution

Packaging, Paper & Cardboard

We aim to limit the amount of packaging we use for our goods, All packaging materials are chosen with function and environmental impact in mind. We choose materials that are bio-degradable or recyclable whenever possible.  All cardboard and paper waste is separated and returned for recycling.  We recycle 24 Skips full of paper and cardboard every year that would otherwise have gone to landfill.

Fabrics and Inks

On the 1st January 2007 new legislation 2004/42/CE enters into force in all the European Union countries.  It concerns emissions limits in the atmosphere of solvents used in products such as printing inks.
Our Textile and Dye Sublimation printing equipment use water based dye disperse inks.  By moving to these inks we are committed to reducing our emissions of solvents from printing inks.
We also use 100% polyester fabrics for all our direct to textile and dye sublimation printing.  polyester fibres can be recycled and used to create new material or combined with other polymers to create a wide variety of plastics products.
As part of our environmental policy we are committed to reducing our use of solvent inks and non-recyclable materials.

Energy

We have a simple energy saving policy, All equipment is regularly maintained to ensure it is working efficiently.  Equipment is only switched on when it is in use and we have installed a large number of skylights in the roof of all our factory premises this means we only have to use electric lighting 50% of the time.