Sustainable Times Issue 5

WINTER 2009/10

Eco plastics:
What’s all the fuss about?
Top 12 green PC monitors
Video meetings that work
Energy-efficient MFPs make
their mark

Keeping Cool
How Konica Minolta is
reducing the environmental
impact of print

Voice
Mobile
Visual
Collaboration

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WINTER 2008/9

Last year may have ended in disappointment at
Copenhagen, but for office equipment buyers there was
much that was positive about 2009.
The need to economise meant that managers were more
open to waste reduction initiatives and technologies, such as
virtualisation, smart printing and video conferencing. At the
same time, manufacturers of business equipment continued
to improve the energy efficiency of their devices.
Yet, as we show on page 17, technology is just one part of
the equation, and businesses that introduce new equipment
without changing their corporate culture will fail to maximise
the potential of their investment. In a time of continuing
economic hardship, that is a wasted opportunity no business
can afford.
James Goulding, Editor

CONTENTS
03 Agenda
How to make your office
more sustainable.

10 Stationery

Stationery suppliers
embrace environmentally
sensitive plastics. But how
good are they?

12
Cover Story
What Konica Minolta
is doing to limit the
environmental impact
of its printers.

21 Printers

What are printer
manufacturers doing
to reduce the energy
consumption of A3
colour MFPs?

22 Energy

Efficiency
oftware to
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shrink your
carbon
footprint.

14 Green Screens
select 12 of the
We
greenest LCD monitors

17 ideo Meetings
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How to get the most out
of your videoconferencing
system.

18 hat’s New
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Our round-up of the

latest sustainable office
products.

Editor
James Goulding 07803 087228 jamesg@binfo.co.uk
Advertising Director
Ethan White 01474 824711 ethan@binfo.co.uk
Publishing Director
Neil Trim 07803 087229 dd 01737 249408 neil@binfo.co.uk
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The paper is made from Elementary Chlorine Free (ECF) pulp, which is
sourced from sustainable, properly managed forestation.

Carbon neutral office sets standard for
the future
Velux Group is creating a
series of six carbon neutral
homes throughout Europe,
as it seeks to provide
a template for more
sustainable housing that
makes optimum use of
daylight and fresh air.
The first of these homes
– the Home for Life in
Lystrup outside Denmark’s
second largest city Aarhus –
will be occupied by a family
of four for a year, providing
Setting new standards: the Green Lighthouse
the building industry with
in Copenhagen, Denmark
the data needed to develop
allow fresh air to enter; thermo-active
the next generation of
concrete floors that absorb heat; and
climate-neutral buildings.
skylights that allow heat to escape.
As part of the Model Home 2020
In winter, the solid construction
initiative, Velux has also developed
and heavy-duty insulation of walls and
a carbon neutral office building in
the roof reduce heating demand, while
conjunction with the Danish Ministry
thermo glass in windows minimises
of Science, Technology and Innovation;
heat loss and helps the sun heat the
the University of Copenhagen; the
building.
City of Copenhagen; and window
The building’s primary energy
producer Velfac.
source is the sun. Solar cells and panels
The Green Lighthouse, Denmark’s
cover the roof, which is tilted to the
first public CO2-neutral building, is
South for maximum exposure to the
being used by the Faculty of Science at
sun’s rays. Heat is accumulated in
the University of Copenhagen to house
the thermo-active concrete on the
student services, such as careers advice,
ground floor, which functions as the
course information and a faculty club.
building’s main ‘radiator’ during winter.
The 950m2 building is designed
In summer, excess energy is stored
to consume 75% less energy than
underground and used during cloudy
stipulated by existing building
periods.
standards through the optimal use
Other energy sources used by
of daylight, a natural ventilation
The Green Lighthouse include heating
system and an automatic cooling and
pumps and district heating.
heating system.
Velux plans to open a Home for Life
The building is cooled through a
in the UK in the second quarter
combination of natural ventilation –
of 2010.
the upper part of the windows open
www.greenlighthouse.ku.dk
and close automatically in order to

TCO pushes the boundaries
Reflecting growing interest in green
IT, TCO Development has unveiled a
new labelling scheme that assesses
a product’s green credentials,
notably its recycled content, in
addition to the energy efficiency
and ergonomics addressed by
existing TCO certification schemes.
TCO Certified Edge is a
supplementary award for IT products

already meeting the TCO Certified
criteria that set new standards for
usability and environmental impact,
with a particular focus on the use of
recycled materials. In order to qualify
for TCO Certified Edge accreditation,
a monitor, for example, must contain
a minimum of 65% post-consumer
waste recycled plastic.
www.tcodevelopment.com

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The RAC’s award-winning offices boast
“outstanding green credentials” q

Best in show
The Regional Agricultural Centre (RAC) at the Great Yorkshire
Showground in Harrogate was joint winner in the Retail/
Leisure Development category at the recent 2009 Estates
Gazette Green Awards.
Judges praised the new £5 million home of the Yorkshire
Agricultural Society (YAS) for its “outstanding green credentials”,
which include a timber frame, living sedum roof, sheep wool
insulation and doors and washroom fittings made from recycled
plastic bottles.
Designed by P+HS Architects, the RAC provides office space for
the YAS, organiser of the Great Yorkshire Show; additional offices
for rural businesses; and the Fodder regional food shop and café.

Smart grids on trial in Germany
Cisco, in conjunction with electricity
supplier Yello Strom, is currently
conducting a smart grid pilot in
Germany.
Smart grids, or intelligent energy
systems, that allow householders and
businesses to communicate with the
local power grid and power sources
over an IP network are seen as an
important weapon in the battle to
reduce energy consumption and lower
peak period demand.
The 70 homes and businesses
participating in Cisco’s trial will use
an online electricity meter to monitor
electricity consumption in real time and
an energy management system and
smart plugs to control electricity usage.
Cisco claims that such technology
can reduce energy consumption by
around 10% or 15% if electrical items
(such as dishwashers or washing
machines) are time-delayed to operate

during off-peak periods.
Over time, a reduction in peak
demand might enable power companies
to roll-back reserve capacity, which
is traditionally provided by gas- or
oil-fired power stations. With a smart
grid system in place, it would also be
possible for consumers to provide some
of the reserve supply through renewable
energy sources, such as solar panels.
Cisco’s vision is for networking
technology to provide an end-toend infrastructure so that the entire
electrical system can be managed as a
single integrated entity, from generation
to use in business and the home. Its
inherent intelligence would enable such
a network to sense and respond to
changes in power supply and demand,
improving the security and reliability
of energy delivery and optimising
operational costs.
www.cisco.com

Black gold
Carbon Gold, Green Black’s and the
Toledo Cacao Growers Association
(TCGA) are implementing a biochar
project in Belize that is designed
to boost cacao farmers’ incomes,
improve soil fertility and capture
carbon that would otherwise be
released into the atmosphere as CO2.
TCGA farmers, who grow the
Fairtrade cacao for the Green Black’s
organic Maya Gold chocolate, will be
taught how to construct and operate
units that convert prunings from the
cacao trees into biochar that can then
be ploughed back into the ground.
Biochar is a type of charcoal
produced by heating biomass in a
simple kiln so that its carbon content
can be stabilised for hundreds if not
thousands of years and prevented from
re-entering the atmosphere. When
mixed with soil, biochar enables greater
moisture retention and reduces nitrous
oxide and methane emissions. It also
helps rebuild soil structure, vital in
countries where soil quality is low.
www.carbon-gold.com

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system reduces the need for firewood

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biochar from cacao tree trimmings

Swedish company Solvatten has been named a Climate
Solver by WWF on the strength of its solar-powered water
treatment system.
The Swedish invention uses heat and UV from the sun and
a built-in filter to treat contaminated water. Depending on
weather conditions, it takes two to six hours to treat 10 litres
of water. WWF has calculated that using the sun’s rays to treat
water rather than boiling it on a stove has the potential to
reduce annual CO2 emissions by 26 million tonnes by 2020.
A further benefit of Solvatten is that it heats water during the
treatment process, providing warm water for cooking, bathing
or washing dishes, which further reduces the need for firewood.
www.solvatten.se

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Centralised print strategy key to cutting
carbon emissions
Businesses in the UK and Ireland are
missing a great opportunity to reduce
their carbon footprint by failing to
implement a centralised document
governance strategy, Ricoh warns.
According to a new study by the
printer company, just one in three
businesses sets targets and audits
the environmental impact of their
document production, compared to
66% who set cost reduction goals,
despite the positive impact that the
latter can have on an organisation’s
sustainability goals.

Ricoh argues that a centralised
document governance strategy is the
first step to identifying environmental
savings, as it will enable organisations to
gather the company-wide data needed
to measure, monitor and manage print,
and the means to implement tactical
quick wins, such as two-sided printing.
Its survey of 311 decision makers
in medium and large organisations
found that just 18% had implemented
a company-wide policy on two-sided
(duplex) printing.
http://research.ricoh-europe.com/uk

The growing
appeal of bamboo
Dell has started using packaging made from bamboo as an
alternative to moulded paper pulp, foam and corrugate. Trays
made from the fast-growing, renewable material are being used
to cushion Dell’s Inspiron Mini 10 and Mini 10v netbooks.
Dell plans to expand its use of bamboo packaging to more
products in early 2010. Bamboo can grow up to 24 inches
per day and reaches full harvesting maturity in three to seven
years, significantly faster than hardwoods. www.dell.com

Less is more
Toshiba Electronics Europe has cut the amount of
plastic used in the packaging for its memory cards and
USB flash drives by 60%. Moving from conventional
blister packs to slimmer, lighter paperboard packaging
has also reduced shipping and storage requirements.
www.toshiba-components.com

Green card
The Institute of Direct Marketing has issued its 4,000 plus
members with a new membership card made out of Ingeo PLA,
a plastic made from sugar beet, potatoes and switchgrass. The
cards are just one of the environmentally friendly options in
the ecocard range from The Plastic Card Shop. Others include
cards made from recycled PVC or recyclable PETg plastic; and
the Bloomcard, which is made from recycled junk mail and
incorporates wild flower seeds that will grow and flower if the
card is planted after use. www.eco-card.co.uk

It is time to accentuate
the positive, argues Futerra
Climate campaigners and
governments are undermining the
effectiveness of their message by
focusing on nightmare scenarios
rather than creating the vision
of a low carbon heaven, Futerra
Sustainability Communications argues
in a new report.
In Sell the Sizzle: The New Climate
Message, the communications agency
advises activists to sell persuasive visions
of what the world will be like if we meet
carbon reduction targets; to implement
five year plans rather than ones 20 or
40 years in the future; and to create
action plans for everyone – families,
organisations and communities.
Solitaire Townsend, co-founder of
Futerra, said: “Climate hell has ruled the
media for the past six months. Shock ads
have sought to prove a point.

www.binfo.co.uk

But the narrative has become a message
that sells pure “hell”, and it can surely be
no coincidence that the climate change
movement has gathered more detractors
as a result.
“It’s time to find the sizzle – to
make climate behaviours and policies
appetizing to our audiences and to
build a vision of a positive future. The
building blocks of these visions should be
valuable, irrespective of climate change.
Upgrading our energy sector, protecting
our big green spaces (like the Amazon)
and little green spaces (like our parks),
living healthier lifestyles and cutting
pollution; we’d want these whatever
the circumstances. It’s this sizzle, and
this sizzle only, that can sell widespread
action on climate change.”
The report can be downloaded from
the Futerra website: www.futerra.co.uk

Philips lights up the pitch
Philips has developed a solar-powered LED floodlight
that will enable people with little or no access to
electricity to participate in social, educational, cultural,
sporting and commercial activities long into the night.
Each lamp can light up an area of 20 x 40 metres and
provides 8 hours’ illumination on a single charge.
www.philips.com/offgridlighting

UK householders must
insulate to cut costs
UK homeowners are wasting £2.9 billion a year and
unnecessarily pumping 15.5 million tonnes of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new report
by insulation producer Rockwell.
Its research shows that one in four homes (28%) does
not have loft insulation, 58% have no cavity wall insulation
and the same number (58%) have no lagging on pipes.
In light of these findings, Rockwell is urging homeowners
to visit the Energy Savings Trust (EST) website to find
details of any grants or discounts that are available.
EST estimates that installing loft insulation, cavity wall
insulation and pipe lagging in an average three-bedroom
property would cost £510 and reduce fuel bills by £275.
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk

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Top Ten Tips
The Department for Environment, Food Rural Affairs
(Defra) claims that small and medium-sized businesses
could save £6.4 billion by adopting the following waste
reductions initiatives:
1. urn off all office equipment when you’re not using it –
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overnight, at weekends and during bank holidays.
Savings for just a single computer and monitor could be
as much as £35 a year.
2. ut lighting costs by as much as 15% by turning
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off lights in empty rooms and using energy efficient
lightbulbs.
3. urn off taps and fix any drips. A constantly dripping tap
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can waste 500,000 litres of water per year. This could
cost your business about £400 per year.
4. mprove waste management and save 4% of your
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turnover. Partner with businesses to recycle waste or sell
it to be used as raw materials.
5.
Turn the thermostat down by one degree and save
8% on your company’s heating bill.
6. sk suppliers about take-back schemes for unused
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products. You may be able to get your money back, or
at least a portion of the cost.
7. ave up to 1 month’s worth of fuel through smarter
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driving, such as reducing loads or good maintenance.
8. nvest in efficient equipment to help cut your energy,
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transport and water costs. Government support
includes interest-free Energy Efficiency Loans delivered
through the Carbon Trust.
9. rint smarter. Use email where possible; set your PC to
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print double-sided; and refill printer, fax and photocopier
cartridges. Refilling an inkjet cartridge costs half as much
as buying a new one.
10. Always publicise your commitment to reducing your
environmental impact. More than a third of consumers
favour recyclable products or those with minimal
packaging.
www.businesslink.gov.uk/savingmoney

Multi-use computing made easy by HP
The combined forces of Microsoft, HP and Displaylink are
used in a new low cost computing solution that, like similar
offerings from NComputing, is ideal for education, emerging
markets and large multi-seat installations where a complete
PC for every person isn’t affordable or practical
Based on Windows Multipoint Server 2010 and energyefficient HP thin clients, the solution enables up to 10 people
to share the processing power of a single PC, with a separate
desktop experience on each monitor.
By removing the need for additional video graphics hardware
and enabling the thin clients to connect via a standard USB
cable, DisplayLink’s USB virtual graphics technology removes
complexity and keeps costs low.
All that’s required is a single PC running Windows MultiPoint
Server, solid state thin client access devices with DisplayLink
software and a standard USB 2.0 cable instead of proprietary
connection technology.
With a power consumption of 2.5 watts per user, the
HP MultiSeat solution reduces energy use by 80%.
www.hp.com
www.displaylink.com/thin_client.html

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Green curtains prevent
solar gain at Kyocera
Kyocera has come up with an
imaginative solution to solar gain in 12
of its Japanese manufacturing and office
buildings. Fast growing ‘green curtains’
of morning glory, peas and goya (a bitter
gourd and traditional summer vegetable
of Okinawa) shade south facing windows
in the summer months, preventing direct
sunlight from entering and reducing the
need for air-conditioning. Tests show
that the foliage lowers the temperature
of the outer wall area by as much as 15
degrees centigrade, whilst also providing
a relaxing working atmosphere and a
source of food for the staff canteen. Last
summer, the ‘green curtains’ covered
a total area of 775 square metres and
absorbed approximately 2,713kg of CO2,
as much as 194 cedar trees.
www.kyocera.com

UK businesses missing
an open goal
Organisations in office blocks and
large buildings are missing ‘an open
goal’ when it comes to energy-saving
initiatives by failing to implement
voltage optimisation technology.
Leading UK green tech company
powerProtector claims that its ‘green
box’ can cut electricity usage by as
much as 20% without compromising
supply, much more than can be gained
through voluntary workplace schemes
such as paper recycling, switching-off
computers at night and biking to work.
The Japanese invention works by
regulating and optimising the amount
of electricity used by a building:
due to the design of the National
Grid, buildings typically use much
more electricity than is needed.
PowerPerfector claims that the Green
Boxes have already generated savings of
£24 million for UK customers.
www.powerperfector.com

Servers waste $25 billion a year
Businesses are wasting millions of
pounds on servers that perform no
useful function but still consume
energy and take up room.
A Kelton Research study
commissioned by 1E and the Alliance to
Save Energy found that as many as 15%
of servers – 4.7 million globally – do
nothing, wasting $25 billion a year.
Almost three quarters of server
managers (72%) admitted that they
rely on CPU utilisation as the measure
of server efficiency, even though a
CPU may simply be doing routine
maintenance tasks that provide no
business value. Two thirds (63%) rely on
manual checks, trial and error or wait

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until something is broken to find unused
servers.
Yet, this is still an area server
managers are eager to address: 65%
have virtualised unused servers and
almost one in three (32%) is seeking a
solution to virtual server sprawl.
1E’s recently launched
NightWatchman Server Edition can help
server managers identify which servers
should be decommissioned by providing
detailed information on server efficiency
and power consumption. The software
also includes Drowsy Server technology,
which continually monitors activity
and dynamically minimises energy
consumption. www.1e.com

Carbon counter
Version One has developed a carbon calculator for its electronic document
management systems. The Green Meter calculates the carbon and paper
saved by using an EDM system to store and route documents electronically.
01625 856505
www.versionone.co.uk
www.ecogecko.org
Headset recycling
RecyleMyHeadset.co.uk provides office and call centre managers with
a simple way to recycle obsolete, unwanted or damaged headsets and
telephony equipment. To encourage people to take advantage of the service,
Voice Active Group is offering money-off vouchers that can be redeemed
against more than 12,000 consumer and office products. 0800 019 0234

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If ethics are high on your list,
take a look at the top of this one
POSITION

COMPANY

ETHICAL COMPANY
INDEX SCORE

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Brother
Kyocera
Lexmark
Konica
Epson
Xerox
Canon
Dell
Samsung
HP

100
90
85
80
70
65
60
55
55
40

Judging categories: Environment, animal welfare and human rights.

100 OUT OF 100

3 YEARS*

RUNNING
It’s good to know Brother has come first yet again for its environmental and ethical strategies.
And as we’re the only printer and fax manufacturer to do so, which name should top your list?

To find out more: www.brothergreen.co.uk or call 08444 999 444 quoting ST/12/09
* Source www.ethical-company-organisation.org – 2009

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Low cost route planning
The AA and business efficiency specialist Postcode
Anywhere have unveiled an online route optimiser for
hauliers and couriers that could cut fuel, journey times,
labour costs and carbon emissions by up to 30%.
Route Optimiser uses sophisticated maths to plan the
shortest routes for single vehicles or whole fleets, taking
into account the vehicle’s height, weight and width. The
service hosted by Postcode Anywhere is available from as little as
£80 for single-vehicle couriers. www.routeoptimiser.com

Cost-conscious fleet managers and
company car drivers are choosing low
emission vehicles in record numbers
and continuing to travel fewer miles,
according to new research from ALD
Automotive, which operates 50,000
vehicles on contract hire, contract
purchase, conditional sale and fleet
management. Its analysis of customers’
driving choices from 2003 to 2009
shows that average CO2 emissions of
new company cars added to its fleet
have dropped from 167 g/km in 2003
to 147 g/km in 2009. Over the same
period, the average annual contracted
mileage for company cars has fallen
from 22,475 to 18,127 miles.
www.aldautomotive.com

World’s first
sustainable racing car
This may look like any other Formula 3
racing car, but in other respects it is
very different. Developed by researchers
at the University of Warwick, ‘the
world’s first green racing car’ is made
from a variety of sustainable materials
including woven hemp (the chassis),
carrot pulp (the steering wheel),
recycled carbon fibre and resin from
plastic drinks bottles. It runs on fuel
made from chocolate and animal fats
and is lubricated with plant oils. Yet it
can still achieve 0-60 in 2.5 seconds
and has a top speed of 135 mph.
The project led by Dr Kerry Kirwan
was funded with a grant from the
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC).
www.impactworld.org.uk
www.epsrc.ac.uk

Cut your engine in a jam
Britain’s drivers are being encouraged to conserve fuel
by turning off their engines when stuck in traffic jams, a
practice currently observed by just 5% of drivers.
According to mobile resource management company
Trimble, idling the engine for more than 10 seconds consumes
more fuel than switching off and restarting, while idling for two
minutes uses the same amount of fuel as driving for 1 mile.
Trimble MD Andrew Yeoman said: “Road transport is the
third largest source of UK greenhouse gases and accounts for
over 20% of total emissions. It is easy to leave the engine
running while taking care of other things but the vehicle is
being ineffective and burning excessive fuel.
“If a driver is parked at the side of the road to complete
paperwork or make a call or even making a delivery which lasts
more than 10 seconds, the engine should be switched off.”
In recent tests with a lorry fleet, Trimble proved that
reducing idle time when not moving to 10 minutes a day
instead of an hour could reduce CO2 emissions by 1,297kg
each year per vehicle.
Further savings can be achieved by fitting vehicles with
Trimble’s Driver DNA box which records where vehicles are
travelling and how they are being driven, as well as whether the
engine is left on when the vehicle isn’t moving.
Trimble’s own research with a cross section of commercial
drivers on an 8 mile track showed that different driving styles
can affect fuel consumption by as much as 17 miles per gallon.
www.trimble.com

Is this the future of racing? The world’s first sustainable
racing car is partly made from carrot pulp

In the shade
An array of 516 solar panels in the car park at Dell’s Round
Rock, Texas campus provides shade for 50 parking spaces and
powers two charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles.
The installation is designed to generate 130,000 kilowatt hours
of solar power annually, helping to avoid 145,000 pounds of
greenhouse gas emissions. www.dell.com

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Big surge in car club
membership
Cost saving initiatives by customers
has caused business membership of
Streetcar, the UK’s largest car club,
to double in the last 12 months.
Streetcar, which hires VW Golfs,
Polos and Transporter vans on a
pay-as-you-go basis, has seen its
corporate membership rise from 900
to almost 2,000 as organisations look
for alternatives to owning their own
fleet or using private hire vehicles.
Cars can be booked online for
periods as short as one hour and
collected from 1,000 locations
in seven cities (London, Brighton,
Cambridge, Southampton, Guildford,
Maidstone and Oxford).

Surrey County Council (SCC) is
typical of the new breed of Streetcar
user. It has registered 164 employees
with the car club, giving them access
to 1,670 Streetcar vehicles on an ondemand basis.
This arrangement gives SCC
the convenience of a car fleet, but
without its fixed costs, depreciation
and management burden. SCC has
calculated that using Streetcar rather
than its own fleet of pool cars has cut
the cost per mile by 22.55%.
According to Kay Hammond,
Surrey County Council’s Cabinet
Member for Community Safety, it has
also helped SCC reduce its carbon
footprint. “It encourages our staff to
walk to work or use public transport
in the knowledge they have access
to a car for business purposes. This is
helping us reduce our carbon footprint
and ease traffic congestion,” she said.
In the last 12 months, Streetcar
has also more than doubled its private
membership to 75,000. Independent
research conducted by Transport
for London shows that each car
club vehicle on the road replaces
an average of 26 privately owned
cars. This is because each car has an
average of 40 users, more than half of
whom choose not to buy (or replace)
a car when they join a car club.
www.streetcar.co.uk

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Better the
devil you
know?
More and more stationery suppliers
are launching products made from
bio-plastics or oxy-biodegradable
plastics. But how practical are they?
Recycled stationery is often described
as a low hanging fruit for businesses
with sustainable purchasing strategies.
Simple, low value items and a wide
variety of recycled paper and board
products mean that it has been
easy and largely inexpensive for
organisations to green their offices.
For many years, the simplest approach
was to adopt recycled paper products.
However, in recent years suppliers have
embraced additional green materials,
including recycled plastics and, more
controversially, compostable and
biodegradable plastic.
All three options were much
in evidence at the Spicers
SOS ’09 office products show
held at the NEC Birmingham
in December.
Recycled plastic
Recycled plastic is now used to
manufacture a wide range of recycled
products from files and folders (e.g. the
recycled polypropylene Exactive Green
Filing range from Tollit Harvey) to
desktop accessories (e.g. Avery’s
recycled DTR Eco desk tidies) and
calculators.
Last year Canon made headlines
with the launch of a calculator
made out of recycled plastic from
old photocopiers, and competition
has been growing ever since.
At SOS, almost all calculator
manufacturers were showing recycled
versions of their products, and even those
that weren’t, such as Sharp, are planning
to launch ones soon.
Casio’s Eco calculators are typical.
They have exactly the same features
as standard models, but boast a 100%
recycled plastic case and mercury-free
batteries. With prices ranging from
£6.99 to £20, the DF-120ECO-W,
JF-120ECO-W and SL-305ECO-W cost

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Aurora Eco-Calc:
recycled plastic

Snopake Polyfile Bio2:
Oxy-biodegradeable
plastics

Rapesco filing: Oxy-biodegradeable plastics

about 10% more than standard versions.
Aurora has gone one stage further
with its Eco-Calc range by dispensing
with batteries altogether. Unlike the
company’s standard calculators, which
have dual power sources (battery and
solar), Eco-Calc calculators are powered
solely by light. Another benefit of Aurora’s
offering is that the calculators are made
from post-consumer waste. Recycled
content varies from 50% to 80%.
Recycled plastic products have a lower
carbon footprint than virgin plastic ones,
whilst also diverting waste from landfill
or incineration. However, they still suffer
from the same drawbacks as other plastic
products, notably the amount of space
they will eventually take up in landfill and
the time it takes for them to degrade.
Businesses that want to reduce
the environmental impact of
plastic purchases are increasingly
being offered sustainable alternatives
made either from bio-plastics or oxybiodegradable polypropylene. Although
both varieties of plastic purport to be
environmentally-sensitive, they have very
different properties.
Bio-plastics
Bio-plastics are made from renewable
agricultural products and take a matter
of months to completely biodegrade
in commercial composting facilities.
They can also be recycled, but the
infrastructure and volume of material
needed for large-scale recycling do not
yet exist.
At SOS, Sanford was showing the
Paper:Mate Eco, a biodegradable pen
made with a corn-based bioplastic.
Paper:Mate advises customers to
disassemble the pen and bury
the biodegradable parts in soil or
compost, putting the other parts in the
bin. However, the pen is refillable, so a
more responsible approach would be to
refill it, ideally more than once.
Bio-plastics have their critics, but
demand for the material is growing.
A new study by the University of Utrecht
predicts that demand will grow from
360,000 tons in 2007 to 2.3 million
tons by 2013 and that the material has
the potential to replace 90% of existing
plastic consumption.

Oxy-biodegradable plastics
Oxy-biodegradable plastics are another
‘green’ option. They are made from
normal plastic (typically polyethylene or
polypropylene) with a special additive
that accelerates the degradation process.
Unlike bio-plastics, oxy-biodegradable
plastics are designed to be recycled in the
normal waste stream, while offering the
reassurance that they will be ‘completely
bio-assimilated’ by naturally occurring
micro-organisms, if disposed of in an
environment with oxygen, light and
moisture.
At SOS a number of companies
unveiled new products made from this
material. Stewart Senior, which has been
selling oxy-biodegradable filing products
under the sseco brand for at least 12
months, has extended its range to include
janitorial supplies, such as vending cups
and bin liners; Snopake unveiled the
Polyfile Bio2 range of filing and display
products; and Rapesco, best known for
its stapling and punching equipment,
previewed a seven-strong range of
biodegradable filing products including
popper wallets, clip files and ring binders.
Oxy-biodegradable plastic, too, has
its critics. Detractors point out that it will
not degrade in tightly packed landfill and
that it will never bio-degrade completely,
but simply break down into smaller and
smaller pieces.
Conclusion
For business buyers, green plastics
represent something of a minefield. In
addition to doubts over their benefits
and environmental impact, there are
numerous practical considerations.
Purchasing managers might choose
to replace plastic folders with bio-plastic
ones. But what then? Will end users
be able to tell the difference between
oxo-biodegradable, PLA or conventional
plastic products? Will the company have
to set up separate disposal systems for
different types of plastic? How do you
prevent contamination of the different
waste streams?
Given the uncertainties involved, the
absence of international standards, the
lack of agreed labelling systems and the
availability of polypropylene recycling, it
may, in the short term, be better to stick
with (and recycle) the devil you know.
To find out more about the merits
and drawbacks of the two materials,
please visit the websites of the
Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics
Association (www.biodeg.org)
and European Bioplastics
(www.european-bioplastics.org).

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With environmental conservation
now a global concern, Konica
Minolta is working hard to ensure
that it does its part to minimise
the environmental impact of its
business activities.

Investing in a
better future
Because of its green credentials Konica Minolta was recently
selected as a main partner for the UN’s 2009 Climate Conference
COP15 (the 15th Conference of the Parties), in Copenhagen,
Denmark. The company provided more than 30 bizhub colour
multifunctionals and monochrome production printing systems,
with a total value of €2 million. Equipped with state-of-the-art
technology, the bizhub document imaging systems met the printing,
copying, scanning and faxing needs of all participants from the UN
and delegates prior to and during COP15.
Konica Minolta has several programmes to minimise its impact
on the global environment, such as its Zero Waste initiative and the
company complies with the ideals of the UN climate convention.
Last year, two of the company’s bizhub colour multifunctionals
(bizhub C550 and bizhub C650) earned the Energy Conservation
Grand Prize for Excellent Energy Conservation Equipment from the
Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, for being highly
efficient and environmentally sound.

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Recently the company also signed
the UN’s Global Compact agreement.
This initiative aims to solve various
increasingly serious issues such as global
warming, environmental concerns
and social disparities by encouraging
each participating company to fulfil
sustainable growth and development.
At COP15 Konica Minolta was one
of seven of the largest companies
in the IT industry to take part in the
Green IT Panel to discuss ways in which
IT can provide global solutions for
reducing carbon emissions. Ken Osuga,
Vice President Business Operations
at Konica Minolta Business Solutions,
presented the company’s initiatives to
reduce carbon dioxide in manufacturing,
product use and recycling.
One of Konica Minolta’s primary
objectives is to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions by 20 percent through the
life cycle of products in the financial
year 2015 compared with 2005. For
example, production of Konica Minolta’s
unique Simitri HD polymerised toners
generates 40 percent less carbon dioxide
emissions than earlier pulverised toners.
These toners also reduce the energy
consumption of printing and copying
systems by up to 20 percent due to a
lower melting point. These efforts were
a decisive factor in the UN’s choice
of Konica Minolta as one of its main
sponsors for the Copenhagen climate
change conference.

bizhub C452 is energy efficient
Konica Minolta’s comprehensive
environmental management is ISO
certified and its bizhub multifunctionals
qualify for the Energy Star rating. These
systems consume about half the power
used by standard devices. One of the
latest models, the bizhub C452 has a TEC
(typical energy consumption) of about
60 percent below the latest Energy Star
requirements.
Induction Heating fusing technology
means that the bizhub C452 is the most
eco-friendly colour multifunctional in its
class. Technological enhancements also
give a warm up time of only 45 seconds
from cold. The use of Konica Minolta’s
patented Simitri HD Polymerised Toner,
with smaller, smoother, more uniform
toner particles allows fusing at lower
temperatures and produces high quality
images with a wider colour gamut.
The bizhub C452 has a 45 prints
per minute output speed in black-andwhite or colour. Designed for intensive
workgroup use, the bizhub C452 has an
impressive array of high-productivity
features.

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New bizhubs have improved
environmental performance

operating reliability because there are
fewer paper misfeeds as a result of
paper curl. For duplex printing (double
sided) this is especially important
because the sheet of paper has to pass
through the machine twice.
An added benefit of IH is that the
machine warm up time is reduced
significantly. Using the IH fusing
technology has allowed Konica
Minolta to shorten this warm-up time
considerably, resulting in a successful
reduction of ready mode power
consumption.

Konica Minolta’s three new mid-range
multifunctionals feature a series of
technical innovations for improved,
environmentally friendly performance.
The bizhub C220, bizhub C280 and
bizhub C360 offer 22, 28 and 36 prints
per minute respectively in black-andwhite or colour. Network print, copy
and high-speed network scanning are
standard features with optional fax
functionality.

• Extra-quiet operation
The latest bizhubs, such as the
bizhub C220, C280 and C360, have
extremely quiet operation so they are
very comfortable to work with and
perfectly suited for installation in any
location, even in open-plan offices.
Numerous technical improvements
throughout the systems, including
steps to eliminate or reduce
unpleasant noises, such as fan noise,
have greatly reduced the operating
noise and optimised the systems’
overall noise emission. As a result, all
three bizhubs are top of the class in
their extra-quiet operation.

bizhub C220, C280 and C360 have
TEC (typical electricity consumption)
values that are amongst the lowest
in their class. The systems switch to
energy-saving mode faster and consume
considerably less power in sleep mode
than previous models. This eco-friendly
operation also helps to save running
costs and keeps all three models well
within the latest regulations of the
Energy Star and the German Blue Angel
standards.

bizhub C220

Induction Heating
technology

• Simitri® HD polymerised toner
The low energy consumption of
the new bizhubs is due in part to
Konica Minolta’s state-of-the-art
fusing technology with Simitri® HD
polymerised toner fixing at lower
temperatures, for minimal warm-up
time and maximum energy efficiency.
In addition the bizhubs’ imaging
quality benefits from using Simitri®
HD polymerised toner because it has

New technologies reduce
environmental impact
• IH fusing
Many of the latest bizhubs from
Konica Minolta use Induction Heating
(IH) fusing technology. IH is an instant
heat source enabling image fusing at
lower temperatures than conventional
fusing. IH relies on electrical currents
within the material to produce heat,
making it very safe.
Lower temperature fusing of images
requires less energy and the reduced
heat means the paper curls less as a
result of drying. This results in greater

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smaller, smoother, more uniform toner
particles for more even distribution,
significantly better fine line definition,
and better solid fills. As a result
Simitri® HD produces high quality
images with a wider colour gamut
As Simitri HD toner needs no oil
for fusing, it produces natural-looking,
low-gloss documents that can be
written on and to which sticky notes
or stamps can be attached. Simitri HD
is more environmentally friendly too,
with reduced emissions generated in
the manufacturing process.

Konica Minolta wins the
prestigious Green Apple Award
The project ‘Going Green with the Blues’
has been designed in conjunction with
Southend United Community Trust to
promote positive social behaviour and
environmental awareness amongst the
local community. The project provides
an innovative environmental training
programme for primary school children
to enable them to make more confident
and informed ‘green’ choices and to
positively influence family and friends
on green issues.
The award-winning project will
be featured in the next Green Book,
the world’s only work of reference on
environmental best practice. The Green
Apple Awards campaign is run by The
Green Organisation, an independent,
non-political, non-profit organisation
that recognises, rewards and promotes
environmental best practice around
the world.
National Organiser for The Green
Organisation Roger Wolens commented,
“To show continued interest in
environmental issues during the current
financial climate shows great foresight
and they deserve the recognition of
being Green Apple Award winners.
They invest in a better future for us
all and deserve to be recognised for
their efforts.”
www.konicaminolta.co.uk
0800 833864

Green Apple Award from left:
Richard Pearce (Head of Corporate
Services, Konica Minolta) Pat Roberts
(Quality and Environment Officer, Konica
Minolta), Alexandra Bastedo (awards
presenter), Claire Ham (Quality and
Environment Manager, Konica Minolta)
and Natasha Jugessur (Quality and
Environment Officer, Konica Minolta)

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The amount of energy consumed by LCD monitors may be small, but that is no
reason not to choose the most energy-efficient options available. Energy Star has
calculated that if all the displays sold in the US met the new Energy Star Displays
certification, US consumers and businesses would save about $1 billion in energy
costs. Today, the most efficient desktop monitors are LCD screens with LED
backlights, which typically consume half as much energy as standard LCD screens.
Another aspect that purchasers need to consider when assessing a screen’s
eco-credentials is the nature of the materials used in its manufacture – their
toxicity, recycled content and recyclability. While (almost) all the monitors in this
round-up have impressively low energy consumption, only a few boast the greenest
manufacturing qualities.
Acer S243HL

Dell G2210
Size and Type: 22-inch widescreen
LCD with White LED
Accreditation: EPEAT Gold,
Energy Star 5.0, TCO 03
Power On: 18W
Power Sleep: 0.15W
Screen thickness: 157mm
Weight: 3.42kg (panel only)
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Response Time: 5 milliseconds
Brightness: 250 cd/m2
Contrast ratio: 1000:1
Built-in Features: Ambient Light
Sensor, Powernap and Dynamic
Dimming help reduce power
consumption.
Comments: The external chassis
includes at least 25% postconsumer recycled plastic; and
the monitor and cables are free of
arsenic, mercury, polyvinyl chloride
(PVC), BFR and CFR. It is 20%
slimmer and weighs 28% less than
previous Dell widescreen monitors
and comes in smaller packaging
with recycled corrugated
cardboard instead of foam.
Price: £169
www.dell.co.uk

LCD with white LED backlights
Accreditation: TCO 03,
Energy Star 5.0
Power On: 17.15W
Power Sleep: 0.55W
Weight: 6.5kg
Contrast ratio: 8,000,000:1
Built-in Features: Speakers
www.acer.co.uk

LG Electronics W2486L
Size and Type: 24-inch LCD screen
with White LED backlights
Power On: 22W
Power Sleep: 1W
Weight: 4.7kg
www.lge.com

EIZO FlexScan EV2313W
LCD with mercury-free LED
Accreditation: EPEAT Gold;
TCO 5.1, Energy Star 5.0
Power On: 16W typical 32W
maximum
Power Sleep: 0.9W
Weight: 3.4kg (without stand)
Contrast ratio: 1,000:1
Built-in Features: Speakers;
presence detector.
Comments: Eizo’s most energyefficient monitor has 60% lower
energy consumption than the
company’s previous CCFL backlit
22in monitor. It is also 37%
thinner and 40% lighter. Energy
saving features include the Auto
EcoView ambient brightness
sensor, which adjusts screen
brightness automatically; and the
EcoView Sense presence detector.
This prompts the monitor to
switch to energy save mode
when it senses that no one has
been in front of the screen for
70 seconds and then return to
normal operation when the user
returns. Optional Eizo EcoView
NET software gives centralised
control of power settings.
www.eizo.co.uk

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AG Neovo U-17
Size and Type: 17-inch TFT LCD
Accreditation: Energy Star
Power On: 25W
Power Sleep: 1W
Weight: 5.7kg
Built-in Features: Speakers;
headphone jack; USB port
Comments: AG Neovo claims
this display is 50% more energyefficient than conventional LCDs
and 67% more than CRT displays.
Eco Switch reduces energy
consumption to 0 Watts.
www.agneovo.com

Samsung XL2370

Viewsonic VX1932WM
Size and Type: 19-inch
widescreen LCD with White LED
backlight
Accreditation: Energy Star 5.0,
TCO 5.0
Power On: 15W
Weight: 4.7kg
Built-in Features: Speakers
Comments: The newest addition
to Viewsonic’s green range
features a mercury-free WLED
backlight.
www.viewsonic.com

Size and Type: 23-inch LCD with
LED backlights
Accreditation: EPEAT Gold,
Power On: 28W
Power Standby: 1.3W
Screen thickness: 65.5mm
Weight: 5.8kg
Comments: The monitor is VOC,
lead and mercury-free and 100%
recyclable. The stylish Touch of
Colour design eliminates the use
of spray paints.
www.samsung.co.uk

HP LE2201w
LCD monitor
Accreditation: TCO 5.0;
Energy Star 5.0
Power On: 35W
Power Standby: 2W
Weight: 5.2kg
Comments: HP’s most energyefficient large-screen Essentials
monitor. The panel and stand are
BFR, PVC and arsenic-free and
the monitor itself has 50% less
mercury than previous models.
Price: £128
www.hp.co.uk

Benq V2400 Eco
Apple LED Cinema Display
LED display
Power Standby: 1W
Screen thickness: 197.1mm
Weight: 9.5kg
Built-in Features: Camera,
microphone and speakers, 3 USB
2.0 ports, MagSafe connector
for charging a MacBook Pro or
MacBook Air, Mini DisplayPort
connector for Apple notebooks
and desktops.
Comments: The greenest display
Apple has created. Like most LED
models, the display is arsenic and
mercury-free. In addition, internal
components and cables are BFRand PVC-free.
www.apple.com

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NEC MultiSync
EA222WMe
LCD with White LED backlights
Accreditations: EPEAT Gold (black
version)/EPEAT Silver (white
version)’ TCO 5.0; Energy Star 5.0;
iF Product Design Award 2009
Power On: 23W (13W Eco Mode 2)
Power Standby: 0.5W
Screen thickness (without stand):
71.8mm
Weight (with stand): 7kg
Built-in Features: Two
loudspeakers; height adjustability;
screen pivot function.
Comments: An inbuilt ambient
light sensor automatically adjusts
the screen brightness to match the
varying lighting conditions at the
workplace. This ensures ergonomic
and energy efficient usage. With a
single push of the NEC One-Touch
Eco Button, the user can switch
the monitor to Eco mode, reducing
energy consumption even further.
A carbon savings meter keeps a
running total of reductions in CO2
emissions achieved by operating
the monitor in Eco mode.
Price: £269
www.nec-display-solutions.com

Size and Type: 24-inch LED
Widescreen
Accreditations: EPEAT Gold;
Energy Star 5.0; TCO 5.0; EuP
Energy, 2009 Good Design Award
Power On: 28W
Power Standby: 0.5W
Screen thickness (with stand):
182mm
Weight: 4.9kg
Comments: Benq LED monitors
consume approximately 36%
less energy than traditional
CCFL displays, while also being
14.6% lighter and 21.2%
thinner. Eco Mode reduces power
consumption by an additional
30%. LED panels are mercuryfree. The 100% recyclable
monitor frame contains 28%
recycled plastics and is coatingand print-free.
Price: £199
www.benq.co.uk

Lenovo ThinkVision
L2251x Wide
LCD display with white LED
backlight
Accreditation: TCO 5.0; TCO
Certified Edge; Energy Star 5.0,
EPEAT Gold
Power On: 20W
Power Standby: 1W
Weight: 5.63kg
Built-in Features: Integrated
webcam; USB hub; Ambient
light sensor; Proximity sensor
turns screen off when no one is
present. LG has calculated that
office workers are away from their
desks for 22% of the working day.
Stand tilts, swivels and pivots.
Comments: Chassis incorporates
no virgin plastic and a minimum
of 65% post-consumer recycled
plastic. 92% recycled packaging
materials.
Price: £250
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Seeing is believing
A recent Dimension Data study of 500 UK
managers showed that although 68% of them
have access to conferencing technology, 75% of
this group use it only occasionally or never.
This indicates that many business people are still unsure
how to make the best use of VC technology and are missing
out on its many benefits, including reduced travel costs and
better use of executives’ time (see box). So what steps should
businesses take to ensure that they get maximum value from
their investment?

Andrew Coulsen, CEO of Dimension Data, has the following
Top Ten Tips for successful visual communications.

conferencing on a mobile or laptop,
for a mobile workforce. Working out
where VC can bring savings will help
you align your business needs with
the right VC solution.
4. emystify Visual Communications
D
Perceptions
is not an all or nothing
VC
technology. It should be used
when and where it is appropriate.
Integrating it into your overall
Unified Communications strategy
will enable employees to use the VC
system wherever they are.

1. Assess Your Office Culture

Review your ‘meeting culture’. Is time
and money being wasted on travel?
Managers questioned in our study felt
that 40% of face-to-face meetings
that required travel could be
conducted via video conference and
be just as effective. Are employees
willing to adapt and change their
meeting culture?
2. Build a Business Case

After making a cultural assessment,
build a business case outlining any
financial savings, reductions in the
carbon footprint and improvements
in employee productivity. ‘Soft’
benefits, such as an improved work/
life balance for employees, should
also be included.
3. Ensure Best Fit

Video Communications can be split
into four categories: telepresence,
which provides a fully immersive
experience through high-definition
video, multiple reactive cameras and
ambient lighting; high definition
video-conferencing, for in-room
group conferences; personal desktop
video conferencing for interactive,
one-on-one meetings; and video

Amey employees have
been enjoying a better
work:life balance since
implementing Tandberg
videoconferencing
systems (see case study
below).
Dimension Data plc is
a specialist IT services
and solution provider,
with expertise in
networking, converged
communications;
security; datacentres;
contact centre
technologies; and
consulting, integration
and managed services.

5. Gain End User Buy In

Getting a critical mass of end-users
to use the system is key to the
success of VC. Making a VC call is
just as simple as making a phone call,
yet employees may still be unsure
about the technology. Providing a
user-friendly interface and operating
procedure will speed up employee
acceptance, but you should still set
up an IT help point and offer training.
6. Secure Management Sponsorship

Having the backing of senior
managers is a huge benefit when
implementing a VC system. Ensure
senior managers become advocates
of its benefits; encourage them to

offer incentives to reduce travel costs;
and lead by example.
7. Communicate

Consultation and responsiveness to
feedback can make the difference
between success and failure. Select
champions to pilot the system and
share their feedback so that any
issues can be addressed. Even people
who don’t need to use VC must be
encouraged to buy into the project
and promote its benefits.
8. Assess your IT Infrastructure

Once VC requirements are set, assess
the technical requirements of each
aspect of the system and crossreference them against your current
IT infrastructure and network. If a
dedicated VC room is required, it will
need to be designed and decorated
to tight specifications, especially
when installing a Telepresence suite.
Physical factors such as adequate
air-conditioning and room size must
be taken into account.
9. Address IT Integration

Address how the VC system
integrates with the communication
environment as a whole, e.g. how
it integrates with a wider unified
communications strategy. Multinational organisations should
consider the extent to which IT
infrastructures across different
regions will be standardised to enable
the VC platform.
10. Achieve your Vision
benefits of Visual
The
Communications are commensurate
with a business’s ambition. Make sure
your initial solution can develop to
meet changing business requirements.
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Tandberg helps Amey cut CO2 emissions and travel costs
Amey has saved £180,000 on travel costs
and reduced its carbon emissions by
40,000 tonnes in its first year of using
video conferencing systems from Tandberg.
One of the UK’s leading public services
companies, Amey manages and supports vital
infrastructure and public services from 200
sites. The nature of its business means that
Amey’s 11,000 employees travel extensively,
so much so that travel and transport accounts
for 80% of the company’s carbon footprint.
As part of a smarter working initiative to
reduce carbon emissions and the safety risks
associated with constant travelling, Amey

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has installed TANDBERG video conferencing
systems in 50 sites across the UK.
“Lots of people were driving long
distances for fairly short, routine meetings,”
explained Keith Sexton, Amey’s Director of
Health, Safety, Environment and Quality.
“We have worked on a solution that will
drive productivity and increase safety while
reducing Amey’s carbon footprint.”
In addition to cost and carbon savings,
Tandberg’s equipment has helped Amey
improve employees’ work-life balance,
productivity, competitiveness and
internal communications.

Holding video conferences has become so
popular that the company estimates it has
achieved a 78% return-on-investment in its
first year of use.
This, as Ewell explains, has not gone
unnoticed in Spain, home of Amey’s parent
company, Ferrovial. “Good news travels fast,
and Ferrovial itself is interested in taking video
conferencing group-wide. The ROI for video
conferencing is so transparent it’s just not
arguable – it’s a very easy business case to
make,” he said.
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What’s New…
Green-age crush
The Minima Office crushes cans and plastic drinks bottles to one
fifth of their original size, minimising the amount of space needed
to store recyclables. The manufacturer claims that the 12-second
crushing cycle is quiet – the only sound is of the plastic or
aluminium being compacted – and fun. Minima is claimed to use
less than £4 of electricity per
100,000 cycles and has a capacity
of 80 crushed cans/bottles.
www.minima-eco.com

Chart topper
Apple’s Mac mini has shot to the
top of the sust-it energy efficiency
chart for computers.
Sust-it ranks more than
5,000 electrical products
according to their energy consumption, among them more
than 100 desktop PCs. As well as being highly energy efficient,
the Energy Star 5.0 and EPEAT Gold certified Mac mini has
PVC-free internal components and cables and contains no
brominated flame retardants. www.sust-it.net

Natural protection
ColcaSac MacBook sleeves are an environmentally
friendly alternative to neoprene notebook cases.
Available in a range of colours, they are made from
heavyweight hemp and lined with 100% polyester
sherpa fleece. An outer pocket can be used to
carry a power adapter or CDs/DVDs. ColcaSac
donates 1% of sales to help purchase land in
environmentally sensitive areas.
www.colcasac.com

White lines
Whitelines is a must for those who
like clean, crisp design. Unlike most
notebooks, which have white paper
and grey lines, this Swedish innovation
has white lines on a very light grey
background. This combination, claims
Whitelines inventor Olof Hannson,
improves clarity and readability and
reduces glare, so that readers can give
their full attention to what is written
or drawn on the page. A further benefit
is that when the page is copied or
faxed, the lines disappear completely.
Whitelines claims its products are ecofriendly: the paper (MultiCopy) is made
at a factory in Southern Sweden
with zero CO2 emissions; and all
transport-related CO2 emissions
are offset by planting trees in
Uganda.
www.whitelines.se

One green button
Small businesses as well as
householders could benefit from the
£35 Energy Saver remote control
from One For All. Instead of leaving
machines on standby overnight, use
this remote control to turn off up
to four devices with the press of a
single green button. One For All claims
that doing so will reduce energy
consumption to 0.9 watts per hour
– 90% less than the 9.7 watts that a
typical set of AV equipment uses when
left in standby.
www.oneforall.com/energysaver

Still evolving
M-real has launched a low-waste packaging option for its
Evolve recycled papers. Perfect for high volume
copying and printing environments,
the Evolve QuickEcoBox contains
2,500 unwrapped sheets in an
easy-to-open recycled container.
As well as eliminating waste from
ream wrappers, M-real has redesigned
the container itself to enable more boxes to
be cut from each sheet of cardboard at the
manufacturing stage, reducing waste by 25%.
The QuickEcoBox option is available for A4 sizes
of Evolve 75 (75% recycled, 75 gsm), Evolve
Everyday and Evolve Business (100% recycled,
80gsm). www.evolve-papers.com

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Recycled colour
Xerox Document Supplies Europe
has launched its first recycled paper
designed specifically for digital
colour printing applications, such
as brochures, annual reports and
environmental statements.
Colotech Recycled paper
contains 80% post consumer
waste and is FSC-certified.
It is available in A4, A3 and
SRA3 in weights of 90, 100
and 120gsm.
www.xerox.com

Emergency power
The Freeloader Pico is a great source
of emergency power for mobile
phones, MP3 players and iPods. Place
it in the sun and the solar charger will
store enough power to restore two
hours of talk time to a mobile, or six
hours’ listening time to an iPod.
The Pico costs £16.99 and can be
personalised with coloured skins
costing £4.99 each.
www.greenstamp.co.uk

Green cloths
Brighten up the company kitchen
with these eco-friendly cleaning
cloths from Jangneus Design.
The 100% biodegradable cloths
are made in Sweden from
recycled cotton and cellulose
(a by-product from the paper
making process) and then
printed with eco-friendly inks
in Oxfordshire. They are machine
washable and come in six colours –
blue, green, purple, black, yellow and
red – and ten different designs.
www.jangneus-design.com

In the box
The Asus Eee Box 1501 is one of the world’s smallest desktop
PCs to feature a slot-load optical disc drive, dedicated
graphics chip and HDMI output for 1080p high definition
playback. Capable of being mounted on the back of a
monitor, the space-saving Eee Box uses up to 70% less
power than traditional PCs. www.asus.co.uk

Raising standards
TCO Development, best known for
its TCO Displays accreditation, has
set up a certification scheme for
projectors (50% of all screen displays
are TCO-labelled). In line with existing
TCO schemes, the new programme
will assess projectors for their energyefficiency, environmental attributes
(e.g. minimal levels of environmentally
hazardous substances) and image
quality. The first models to carry the
TCO Development label are the NEC
NP-410 and NP-21, both of which
have a green Eco button on

Simpler all round
Lenovo is addressing growing demand for energyefficient all-in-one PCs with the launch of the
ThinkCentre A70z (IDC is predicting the market for
such devices to grow by 16% in 2010). Supplied
with a wireless keyboard and mouse, the A70z takes
up less desk space than a tower desktop, eliminates
cable clutter and consumes less energy.
And because it is so much smaller than a
separate CPU and monitor it requires considerably
less packaging – saving the equivalent of 250 paper
cups and 139 plastic bags, claims Lenovo.
www.lenovo.com

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What’s
New…

the remote control, a Carbon Saving
Meter that shows savings made by
operating devices in Eco Mode and a
standby mode with reduced power
consumption.
www.epson.co.uk

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Olivetti UK have just launched
the new OliBook M1020, a highly
desirable, compact NetBook laptop,
perfect for on the go/ mobile use
when travelling and working in
the field.
This is the first of an extensive
range of new Olivetti laptop products,
and Internet keys, due to be launched
by Olivetti in the UK and heralds the
return of the 100 year old company
as a household name in the PC
market, after nearly 30 years out of
the limelight. This lightweight model,
weighing just 1.2kg, has been designed
with a stylish glossy piano-black finish
and measures just 272mm x 189mm.
The OliBook M1020 has a
10.1“screen (1024 x 600) and
1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU.
It offers a 160GB of storage and is
3G ready; perfect for mobile internet
use. As standard, the OliBook M1020
features 2 USB ports, a microphone
and headphone jack and a multi-card
card reader. What is more is has a

built-in web-cam of 1.3 mega-pixels
and offers embedded LAN and VGA
connectors.
Olivetti will be launching the
rest of the range,later in the Year,
comprising 15” mainstream laptops, in
both black and white finishes, including
some specially designed models in
partnership with Intel, who Olivetti
has been working very closely with to
produce this highly competitive laptop
range.
An efficient series of Internet
Keys will also be launched in 2010 for
uploading and downloading data to
mobile phones or PCs and laptops.
Key benefits of these new
lightweight notebooks is that they
are mobile friendly and their ability
to work effectively in almost any
environment, the benefit of this is
that workers can work remotely as
efficiently as by being in the office in
turn reducing the need for unnecessary
return trips to the office to complete
projects etc.

new sustainable offering’s
from Olivetti

New A3 Format
MFP Machines
The new A3 format 18ppm d-Copia
1800, 22ppm d-Copia 2200, and
their MFP versions, the d-Copia
1800MF and d-Copia 2200MF, which
offer optional network printing and
optional fax facilities, will replace the
16ppm d-Copia 1600, 20ppm d-Copia
2000 and their
respective
MFP siblings,
the d-Copia
16MF/dCopia 200MF,
which have
featured in
Olivetti’s
line-up for
the past
3 years.

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The new models provide improvements
over the previous models; not least the
increase in copy / print speed by 2ppm
across the range. Adding a specialised
motor to the drum has helped to
stabilise imaging. Consistent image
quality is achieved for jobs include
photos, and driver’s licences that are
commonly copied at copy shops. One of
the benefits is the reduction of moiré,
or dotted patterns, in black and white
pictures to improve the overall quality of
the image.
Also, the first copy time is only 5.7
seconds and the warm up time have
been improved to 17.2 seconds, making
the new devices the fastest models their
class. They can handle small quantities of
short copies quickly, so users are not left
waiting in front of the machine. What
is more, the bypass capacity has been
doubled to now handle 100 sheets to
improve productivity.
The new models sport the new eyecatching ‘Silver Black’ colour design,
now being seen on the rest of Olivetti’s
new mono models. A new grip-type
handle has been added to the paper
cassettes of the new Olivetti A3 devices.

Users can pull open the cassette from
both above and below the handle with
a minimal amount of force, optimal
for users of all levels of physical ability.
The new models have a slightly smaller
footprint to their predecessors, so they
take up even less space.
The d-Copia 1800, d-Copia 2200, the
d-Copia 1800MF and d-Copia 2200MF
are equipped with a starter toner of
around 3,000 copies. The after-market
toner prints around 15,000 sheets at
5% coverage. The drum shipped with
the devices prints 150,000 pages and
the drum can be replaced once with a
maintenance kit, whose yield is 150,000
pages. The copy volume of the d-Copia
1800 and d-Copia 2200 is 2,500 and
3,000 pages per month, respectively and
the copy volume for the d-Copia 1800MF
is 3,000 pages per month and d-Copia
2200MF is 3,500 pages per month.
Even though these models have
been improved over their predecessors
they will continue to offer reliability
and durability with their long-life
consumables, meaning they will need
very little maintenance and will save
money long-term.

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Less is more
How manufacturers of A3 colour MFPs are meeting the conflicting demands
of faster print speeds and reduced energy consumption.

As businesses seek to reduce costs and shrink their carbon footprint, all aspects
of business equipment are being scrutinised like never before. When it comes to
MFPs, arguably the greatest impact on carbon emissions comes from implementing
and enforcing a printing strategy that has paper reduction as its primary aim.

“

…demand is
for faster and
faster colour
devices,
which places
a strain on
RD…

According to a lifecycle assessment
of MFPs conducted by Lexmark in
association with Bio Intelligence
Services, paper accounts for as much
as 80% of the carbon footprint of an
A4 toner MFP. This compares to 8%
for energy use, 7% for manufacturing,
6% for consumables and 0.4% for
distribution. Recycling at end of life
reduces the carbon footprint by 1.4%.
Clearly, implementing paper
reduction policies, from secure print to
automatic two-sided (duplex) printing,
will have the most impact on a device’s
carbon footprint. But it is also important
to consider energy consumption,
particularly as this will make up an ever
larger proportion of a device’s carbon
footprint as paper use declines.
The annual cost of the energy
consumed by each machine may be
insignificant, but over the lifetime of a
contract and for organisations with large
fleets it soon adds up.
Aston University recently conducted
an energy usage analysis for three
competing A3 colour MFPs, the Kyocera
TASKalfa 300ci, the HP Laserjet

CM6030f and the Xerox WorkCentre
7335. According to its calculations,
the energy costs for 40 machines
over a five-year period ranged from
£6,897.33 for a fleet of TASKalfa 300cis
to £18,842.99 for 40 Xerox WorkCentre
7335s.
Even when you consider that
the Kyocera machine was newly
launched and the Xerox one soon to be
discontinued, this research shows the
importance of evaluating the energy
consumption of different devices.
It also underlines the improved
energy efficiency of the latest
generation of MFPs. Driven by customer
demand and their own carbon reduction
strategies, manufacturers have been
working hard to align the conflicting
requirements of higher print speeds and
lower power consumption.
Faster colour
“In the office market demand is for
faster and faster colour devices, which
places a strain on RD,” explains Wayne
Snell, group product manager for Konica
Minolta office products. “The way
traditional machines fuse toner to the

page is by heat. If you have to make a
faster machine, the page is on the fusing
unit for a briefer time, so you have to
have more heat.”
In order to meet the need for
faster print speeds and greater energy
efficiency, Konica Minolta, like other
manufacturers, has made it a priority to
reduce fusing temperatures and develop
more efficient fusing technology.
Its first breakthrough was Simitri
polymerised toner, which Konica
Minolta introduced in 2006. This has a
40% lower carbon footprint than the
old mechanically produced toner and,
because toner particles are chemically
grown rather than pulverised into small
pieces, they are of a more uniform shape
and size. This results in improved image
quality and a lower melting temperature,
which has enabled Konica Minolta to
reduce the fusing temperature by 15%.
On its new high speed colour MFPs
(the bizhub CF452/552/652), Konica
Minolta has addressed the second aspect
– fusing efficiency – by using Induction
Heating (IH) instead of conventional
heated roller technology.
“With rollers, 50% of the energy is
wasted in radiated heat, with IH heat
loss is only 10%, which means that 90%
of heat is directed to where it is needed,”
explained Snell. “The combination
of these two technologies, gives KM
devices a warm-up time of 15 seconds
from sleep mode and 45 to 75 seconds
from cold. In the old days you would
have to wait three minutes to warm-up.
This makes it more likely that customers
will use energy save settings.”
Sleep settings
Tracey Rawling-Church, Kyocera UK
brand and reputation director, argues
that as an indication of a device’s overall
energy consumption, standby and sleep
settings are an even more important
measure than the power it consumes
when printing.
“When assessing power consumption
for office machines the peak power
consumption level when the device
is printing is not the critical number.
Devices spend up to 80% of their time
on standby or in sleep mode, so it is
the power consumption levels in these
states that are important,” she said.
This is one of the main arguments
against Xerox’s ColorQube solid ink
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Less is more... continued
MFPs. For productivity reasons, ink has
to be kept molten during working hours,
which means that the devices have high
energy consumption in both standby
and low power modes, resulting in an
Energy Star TEC rating 10 times higher
than the most energy efficient toner
devices – see below. In their defence,
Xerox claims that the MFPs have a lower
carbon footprint overall thanks mainly
to the simpler manufacturing and
packaging of solid ink consumables.
Energy Star, the energy certification
program run by the US Environmental
Protection Agency, used to publish
standby and sleep energy consumption
details, but it has now moved to a
more representative Typical Energy
Consumption (TEC) figure.
Based on a testing procedure
designed to replicate typical office
usage (including breaks between print
jobs), the TEC figure shows “the typical
electricity consumed by a product in
normal operation during a representative
period of time (weekly) measured in
kilowatt hours (kWh)”.
The advantage of this system is that
it makes it very easy for customers
to look up and compare the energy
consumption of different devices,
though it is worth bearing in mind that
Energy Star’s testing procedure has its
limitations. Even for A3 colour machines,
the measurement is based on printing
A4 BW pages; pages are only printed

on one side, whereas most organisation
print on both sides the page; and the
testing does not take into account
the power consumption of optional
accessories, such as finishers.
Less is more
The colour MFP range with the
lowest TEC rating is Canon’s new
imageRUNNER Advance series, winner
of a Sustainable Times Editor’s Choice
Award. The 51ppm iR Advance C5051,
for example, has a TEC figure of 3.0
kWh/week, compared to 4.7 for the
Ricoh MPC5000, 5.9 for the Konica
Minolta bizhub C552, 9.6 for the Kyocera
TASKalfa 500ci and13.1 for the Sharp
MX-5001N – all of which are well below
the Energy Star limit of 21.4 kW/h
for 55ppm devices.
According to Trevor Dodsworth,

“

…take into
account how
much energy
the device is
consuming
when not
printing…

Canon

imageRUNNER Advance
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product marketing professional Canon
Business Solutions UK, Canon’s good
showing in the Energy Star tests is partly
down to the efforts it has made to
reduce energy consumption when the
machine is not actually printing.
“When you look at overall energy
consumption in a week, you will take
into account how much energy the
device is consuming when it is not
printing, so it is important to achieve a
really low energy consumption in sleep
mode. The imageRUNNER Advance sleep
mode consumes 1-2 watts per hour.”
Traditionally purchasers have
been most interested in measures of
productivity, such as the first page out
time (FPOT), but Dodsworth believes
that this is changing as environmental
matters become more important.
“Energy efficiency is increasingly one
of the criteria people are basing their
decisions on. The criteria people used
to look at were the sorts of features
you would see on the back of a
product brochure.
Now, environmental aspects are
more to the fore,” he said.
Reducing paper
consumption may be the best
way to lower print costs and carbon
emissions, but choosing an energyefficient MFP and implementing
power management features can also
make a big difference.
www.eu-energystar.org

In brief... PC Power Savings
The average UK business can
save more than £50,000 per
year simply by analysing
employees’ use of computers
and software and by utilising
new technology, Openplain
claims in a new report.
The workplace analytics
software provider argues that
instead of making swingeing
cuts businesses should switch
off computers at night and stop
buying software they don’t need.
Its analysis of the computer
usage of 12,500 users found that
60% of workers still left their
computers on at night. It argues
that if PCs were turned off when
not needed the annual running
cost of a PC would be reduced
from £175 to £35. This equates
to an annual saving of £14,000
in a company with 100 PC users.
Its analysis also shows that the
average company only uses 70%

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of the software it has purchased.
With software expenditure
in medium and large sized
companies averaging £1,250 per
employee, removing all unused
software would generate savings
of up to £375 per employee.
Another way to reduce the
cost of computing is to replace
desktop PCs with thin clients.
Thin client computing specialist
Cutter Project claims a school
that replaced 400 desktop
PCs with devices like the Sun
Ray 270 could save more than
£50,000 a year in electricity
costs. Thin clients – effectively
just a monitor, mouse and
keyboard linked to a network
– also last longer and need less
support.
www.cutterproject.co.uk

The need to monitor and
change workplace culture is
underlined by a new report
from EDF Energy, which reveals
that nine out of ten people
make more effort to reduce
energy in the home than in the
workplace.
The study of 3,000
professionals found that while
more than three quarters (77%)
made an effort to reduce energy
consumption at home, fewer
than half did so in the workplace.
Unsurprisingly, nearly nine out
of ten (87%) said that they
prioritised saving energy at home
rather than the office. Four out
of ten (42%) respondents said
the key reason for failing to save
energy at work was forgetfulness,
while for one in five (21%),
the process feels fruitless as
they don’t believe their actions
make a difference. Despite the

recession, a further 18% of those
surveyed were not concerned
about saving money for their
employers.
IT and communications provider
Redstone Managed Solutions has
launched new software that can
help customers cut their PCs’
energy consumption by as much
as 75%. Ecosoft’s littleFOOT
makes it easy for employees to
monitor and control PC power
consumption and provides a
simple web portal through which
managers can create, view and
export energy usage reports for
devices, departments and office
locations. The reports capture
kWh usage figures, the cost of
the energy consumed and the
carbon emissions generated.
http://wesustain.
redstonemanaged.co.uk

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No business like snow
business from home!
The recent heavy snow in December and January is estimated to have cost British business at least
£1.2 billion in lost productivity according to The Federation of Small Business (FSB). Initially much
of this was due to workers heeding advice to “not travel unless absolutely necessary”. Latterly when
many workers were making strenuous efforts to get to workplaces, they were let down by failures in
the transport infrastructure.
Of course, you could put this down to a ‘once
in a generation’ event. Except exactly the same
thing happened the previous winter in February
2009 when the FSB estimated 20 percent of the
UK’s working population, or 6.4 million people,
did not make it to work because of snow, at a
cost of over £1 billion in lost productivity.
The point is disruptive weather events are not
that uncommon and have an impact on work
every year somewhere in the UK. So other than
accept it as a fact of life with a British stiff upper
lip, is there something more that can be done.
The answer is definitely yes! In the past
decade there have been huge advances in business
communications, but working practices have
hardly changed. Most office based workers can
be just as productive from home as at an office
building. Advances in broadband mean that homebased workers can link securely to their company
network, just as if they were at company premises.
For example Spitfire, a leading business
telecommunications operator and Internet
Service Provider (ISP), offers super-fast ADSL2+
broadband with download speeds of up to 24Mb.

Spitfire can provide ADSL2+ nationally wherever
BT has upgraded the local exchange to ADSL2+
compatibility with most of London and many
other UK business centres already served.
Maximum download speed for Spitfire
ADSL2+ is 24Mb, dependent on customer distance
from the local exchange and the quality of the
telephone line. Upload speeds are dependent on
the Spitfire service selected by the customer:
• DSL2+ Premium service at £49 per month
A
provides up to 1.2Mb upstream bandwidth.
• DSL2+ Standard service at £29 per month
A
provides up to 448Kb upstream bandwidth.
In addition, traffic on ADSL2+ Premium is
prioritised over ADSL2+ Standard so at busy times
it will offer faster speeds and lower latency.
Spitfire’s ADSL2+ is intended for business
quality communications with TotalCare 24/7
Support and other high-level support options. For
mission critical applications a back-up connection
can be provided costing from just £15 per month.
To know more call 0800 319 3333 or visit
spitfire.co.uk

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