Mortons Print and Mailing Ltd, is a privately owned newspaper printing and mailing company, based in Horncastle, Lincolnshire.

Mortons Print and Mailing Ltd is one of the UK’s leading newspaper contract printers, offering an extensive range of printing, delivery and mailing services to national, regional, and local publishers, political parties, local authorities, student newspapers as well as specialist music and entertainment publications.

We recognise and acknowledge that our operations impact on the environment in several ways, including the use of energy for our processes, through emissions of air and water and through the production of waste.

It is our aim to reduce the environmental impact of our business by operating in a responsible manner and having environmental consideration at the heart of our management systems. We commit to comply with applicable legal requirements and with other relevant requirements which relate to our environmental aspects.

This policy applies to all our systems, processes and management decisions. It is management responsibility to ensure staff are trained and competent to fulfill our obligations under this policy.

Directors and managers will set targets for minimising our impact on the environment by aiming to reduce energy consumption, material usage and waste.

Monitoring of our progress in achieving our environmental objectives will be carried out at regular departmental management meetings. Continuous improvement in our performance will be achieved through regular monitoring of our performance, taking appropriate actions to ensure targets are met and through the setting of new ones.

We operate a policy of openness, and we will make available on request any environmental information relevant to our processes which may have a significant impact.

Specific actions to be taken to reduce the impact our processes have on the environment:

Paper usage

Paper is our main raw material and our biggest source of material waste. The diverse nature of our printed products means that paper wastage can rise or fall, depending on the complexity of each job.

• We will identify the best practice in press and print management by monitoring outputs from press activity.
• We will monitor each product and identify the best practice target figures, which will become our benchmark for achievement.