The first-ever Enviro-Mark Solutions awards were announced last week and Soar Print was a category winner in the ‘medium organisation’ division. We’re thrilled to receive this recognition and hope it will inspire other businesses to reduce their carbon emissions.
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Soar directors Jenny Carter and Vicky Soar attended the awards, which focus on the environmental achievements of Enviro-mark members
“It was great news to hear that we were up for an award. To be eligible in our category, you had to have reduced your carbon emissions by more than 20% and been in the programme for a particular length of time. Enviro-Mark set the standard, so this is a significant achievement for Soar Print”, says Jenny.
In total, award winners achieved a net reduction of 10,385 tonnes of carbon over the past year – that’s the equivalent of driving from Cape Reinga to Bluff more than 20,000 times, flying from Auckland to London more than 1300 times or burning 5000 tonnes of coal.
Proud to be a carbon neutral New Zealand print company
Soar Print has been part of Enviro-Mark Solutions’ carboNZero(CertTM) since 2009. When we embarked on our carbon neutral journey, our reported organisational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 396 tonnes. We set a goal to reduce them by 15% within six years. In 2015 our GHG emissions were 256 tonnes - a reduction of 35%, and last year our estimated emissions were 167 tonnes - another reduction of 35%. This was helped along by our move to Ecotricity, New Zealand’s only carboNZero certified, 100% renewable electricity provider.
Soar was the first corporate printing company to achieve CarboNZero certification for company operations. We are also the only printer in NZ to offer carboNZero certification for printed products and print services.
In our category at the awards, the overall winner was one of our clients – Auckland Museum. Professor David Gaimster, current director of the museum, says sustainability is a core objective for the organisation’s 20-year strategy.
“We set ambitious sustainability goals back in 2010 and were proud to have reduced our carbon emissions by 50% just three years later. Becoming more efficient and by using renewable energy, via our solar panels on the roof, nearly 1000 tonnes of carbon emissions are no longer entering the atmosphere. It also means every dollar not spent on energy usage can be spent connecting our collections and programmes with our visitors, onsite, offsite and online.”
Outstanding Performance in Carbon Management, Medium Organisation
Overall winner
· Auckland War Memorial Museum
Other category winners
· Soar Printing Company Limited
· Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley Australia
· Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA)
· Holmes Consulting Group Limited
· Waitaki Biosciences
Find out more about Soar Print’s sustainability achievements.
