The Environment

Through the years, Duplicates INK has been a leader in managing our business in a way that impacts the environment in a friendly, positive, and thoughtful manner. Duplicates Ink is a Green Partner for Santee Cooper, Conway, South Carolina’s local electricity company, and is a friend of the environment. Efforts have been made to make our 7,000 sq. ft. facility environmentally friendly, including the new printing presses purchased which use less electricity; new paper waste disposal methods (including new recycling processes); and many other new additions which will make the building earth friendly. Long before others were paying attention to environmental issues, we implemented the following Environmental Vision and Management Policy:

• Virtually 100% of our paper purchases are from paper companies that harvest trees from decades old tree farms specifically planted, harvested, and replanted to provide an ongoing source of non-public paper pulp.
• We recycle tons and tons of paper every month. Although it can be a lot of work and effort, with a buy-back revenue stream that covers only a small fraction of the cost of our efforts. We continue to believe this to be a very valuable effort.
• We use recycled papers whenever possible, and encourage others to do the same.
• We use inks and toners that are recyclable.
• We use chemicals and solvents that are almost 100% water soluble, bio-degradable, and recyclable. They are often more expensive, but we consider these products to be a wise investment for the environment. We also have soy-based inks which we can use on a variety of print projects.
• We have implemented programs to reduce our electrical consumption and to minimize the usage of all raw materials. This effort has been in partnership with local electrical company, Santee Cooper.
• A very important way that we urge our customers to partner with us in our environment efforts is by using our digital/Internet ordering, proofing, and reordering system. Use of our digital ordering system enables all of us to save substantial amounts of gasoline and other raw materials.

If you have suggestions about how we could further our positive environmental impact, please call us with your ideas at: 1 (843) 248-2574. We are always happy to discuss ways we can make our company better and specifically, ways we can do this by being a friend to the environment.