Longbottom cuts carbon short

Independent paper merchant Longbottom has taken a step beyond green initiatives to become LOW CO2 certified, presenting paper products and the company itself as carbon neutral.

According to owner, Colin Longbottom, the company’s latest act for the environment will open more doors in the marketplace while also reducing its carbon footprint.

He says when the company moved into its current location five years ago, environmentally skewed renovations brought its carbon footprint down. “We tried to do our bit for the environment, everything here is green but we don’t have solar panels yet.

“A few of the mills we deal with produce carbon neutral papers, and with this we hope to play our part to help climate change. We already represent many sustainable programmes including FSC, PEFC, and E-Green Certification,” he says.

To achieve certification, the paper supplier undertook a carbon assessment of emissions from all of its fossil fuel usage, staff travel, electricity and waste.

Offering digital printing paper for on-demand printing, the paper merchant with a big green thumb carries a range of environmentally friendly paper. Such as Nautilus, which consists of entirely recycled fibres and Mondi Color Copy, the worlds first FSC certified colour laser paper.