Environment

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Environmental issues are becoming increasingly important in day to day business. The impact of new legislation, coupled with rising levels of concern from customers, means that few organisations can afford to be complacent when it comes to monitoring the environmental impact of business activities.

The Big Question: Why is South Africa proposing to cull thousands of elephants?

— Monday, 02 March 2008 | Posted by Julian Dawson

The South African government has decided to lift its moratorium on the culling of elephants in the country's national parks because populations in the country have risen from about 8,000 elephants to nearly 20,000 over the past decade or so. South Africa says, for instance, that there are some 5,000 more elephants living in the Kruger National Park, where numbers have almost doubled to 12,500, than can be sustained by the park's enclosed habitat. Read more...

Reduce your carbon footprint everytime you walk to the printer

— Monday, 02 February 2008 | Posted by Julian Dawson

We strive to reduce the amount of resources our products consume, both in their manufacture and during their lifetime. At the heart of this is our ECOSYS printer technology, which uses unique long-life drums and developers which are designed (and indeed guaranteed) to last for the design life of our workgroup printers. In other laser printers, these items are contained in the consumable cartridge and replaced each time the toner runs out; by making them permanent components we greatly reduce the amount of waste generated by our printers ? as well as cutting the cost of consumables, typically by more than 50%. Read more...

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