At Thomson-Shore, we maintain our high quality standards by using recycled materials whenever possible and reusing or recycling post-production waste. Our recycling efforts have allowed us to reduce our environmental footprint considerably. Here's how we do it:
Company-wide initiatives:
- At every office desk, we use two waste receptacles, one for recyclable items and the other for non-recyclable trash.
- In our cafeteria, we use clearly marked receptacles for cans, plastic goods and paper trash.
- We use recycled (and re-recycle!) inkjet and laser printer cartridges.
- We have a recycling trailer available for employees to bring in recyclable materials from home.
In the manufacturing areas:
- 68% of titles we manufacture are printed on recycled paper.
- We recycle all post-production waste paper.
- We recycle all waste and unusable ink.
- We recycle all aluminum printing plates.
- We recycle all silver from our film developer, film scraps, and recycling of old titles.
- We recycle all waste sludge from our in-house solvent recycler.*
- We recycle all used oil.
- We use eco-safe lamps in our lighting.**
To sum it up, we reuse and recycle all materials whenever possible. Virtually 100% of our waste is recycled; anything that's not is consumed by process. We dare you to find a greener book manufacturer!
* Our solvent purchases have declined significantly since installing our solvent recycler and beginning to reuse process solvents.
** Only 40 old-style fluorescent lamps were hauled away last year. Two years ago Thomson-Shore switched the plant and office lighting to eco-safe lamps. These lamps are approved to be environmentally and ecologically safe.
I just wanted to send you a note to thank you for an amazing job on the scanning of the 47 images for our book, Stories from Before. We are eternally grateful to you and everyone at Thomson-Shore for working with us on the correcting of these images. 
