Our Production Base Awareness
Soy Inks:
Our offset products are proudly printed with Soy & Vegetable based ink.
Recycled Stocks:
We offer a 11.5pt 100% PCW recycled paper. Our 100# & 60# house stocked papers are 30% recycled with a 93% brightness. Our 12pt C2S Card stock is 10% PCW Recycled.
Biodegradeable:
Water based coatings make our products 100% biodegradable.
Eco-Friendly Apparel:
We offer organic cotton and bamboo shirts in a variety of brands and colors.
BIOflex:
We now offer the world's first biodegradable outdoor vinyl banner material!
Chlorine & Bleach Free:
No chlorine or bleach is used in the whitening of our paper.
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| Aluminum screens are reused over and over again, even mended when damaged so they can be reused. | | Whenever possible, vender boxes are reused in order to minimize the need for new boxes. | | 100% recyclable aluminum plates are collected monthly. |
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| Plate box packing material is reused for box packing to ensure optimum transit security. | | Ink is distributed to our presses via 55 gallon drums to reduce landfill and waste. | | Our six, house stocked papers are warehoused by the truckload, which reduces semi truck deliveries from weekly stops to only one per month. |
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| All paper trimmings, unused paper products and runs that do not meet our exceptional quality standards are recycled weekly. |
Full Color Offset Inks
Rather than use traditional, cheaper petroleum based inks, Wave Werks uses soy and vegetable based inks. Our ink contains more than 20% soybean oil and 100% solids. It is formulated without petroleum ink solvent, as well as having no volatile organic compound related problems, making it an environmentally friendly choice.
Cleaning Solutions
We only use 100% biodegradable, organic solvent for reclamation and breakdown, in place of cheaper, hazardous mineral spirits.
Shipping Boxes
All Wave Werks products are shipped in 100% recyclable, corrugated cardboard boxes.
Internal Recycling Program
Wave Werks's employees recycle plastic, styrofoam, aluminum, glass and paper products throughout the workday. An on-screen computer based production system keeps employee paper usage to a minimum.
More Facts About Paper and Paper Recycling
- Recycled paper is made to the same standards as paper made from virgin pulp. In addition, recycled paper has features which make it more desirable than virgin paper, such as being more opaque, dense, and flexible.
- Every ton of paper that is recycled saves: 17 trees + 7,000 gallons of water + 4,200 kilowatt hours of energy + 410 gallons of fuel.
- Every ton of recycled paper saves more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
- By 2012, the paper industry's goal is to recover 55% of all the paper Americans consume for recycling, which is approximately 55 million tons of paper.
- More than 37% of the fiber used to make new paper products in the United States comes from recycled sources.
- 86% (approximately 254 million) of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
- Nearly 218,000 tons of shredded paper is used each year for animal bedding.
- In the U.S., more than one-third of the fiber used to make new paper products comes from recycled paper.