Sustainability – A Constant Effort
At NextGen Label Group, we take sustainability very seriously. We understand that our actions have an impact on our environment. With this in mind, we have created an extensive environmental program built around the continual pursuit of minimizing our effect on the world around us. These efforts include investments in new technologies, eliminating harmful chemicals, energy efficient upgrades, and reducing waste streams wherever possible. Ultimately, we strive for solutions that will not only benefit our environment, but also our customers.
A Dedicated Team
In an effort to continually improve our sustainability program, we promote, support and integrate the company’s sustainable efforts and awareness by:
- Identifying ways to streamline our manufacturing process
- Reduce waste, non-recyclable materials, and energy consumption
- A means to prevent pollution, and improve the use of recyclable/reusable materials within our organization
What Steps have We Taken?
In our Syracuse facility, we are a ZERO Waste-to-Landfill facility. We recycle all plate material, computer equipment, metal replacement parts, UV & florescent lights, wood pallets, and batteries. Anything that cannot be recycled, including remaining raw materials, kitchen, and office waste, is used in solid fuel blending or for alternative power generation.
By investing in digital printing technologies we have reduced the waste of all printing materials including plates, substrate, inks and other printing supplies. We have reduced our electricity and natural gas usage.
Materials featuring post post-consumer waste content, which utilizes materials recovered from the consumer waste stream.
- Paper products approved by the North American Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Offer recycle-friendly labels and shrink sleeves for PET bottles and containers
- Pressure sensitive labels that are recyclable with HDPE plastic
- Thin gauge liners and materials which provide more labels per roll allowing for fewer line stops for roll changes, less corrugated and cores to handle and dispose, lower freight and more efficient printing and packaging
Recent Sustainability Achievements
- SGP Certified Facility – Syracuse Label Facility
- EcoVadis Silver Medal Recipient – Syracuse Label Facility
- 2022 Calvin Frost Champions of Change Sustainability Award – Syracuse Label
