PMG Charitable & Green

Our
environmental
promise.

We are passionately committed to environmental sustainability, tirelessly
working to reduce our carbon footprint and investing in greener alternative
technologies wherever possible, the most notable being our solar powered
Bury St Edmunds headquarters. By taking this proactive approach, we can help
you meet your own environmental pledges and carbon reduction goals without
increasing the cost or reducing the effectiveness of your marketing operations.

We have renewed our lighting to lower power LEDs, our print presses use vegetable
based inks. Stock papers are sourced via the FSC or PEFC Carbon Schemes. We
recycle all surplus plastic, cardboard and paper. Waste energy produced by our
compressors is used to heat the building. Proactive supply chain shortening has
allowed us to further reduce our carbon footprint.

Green print
& production.

Our print and production processes are solar powered
and use minimal water!

As part of our ongoing commitment to the environment
our print press uses entirely vegetable based inks.
Petroleum-based inks emit approximately 25% to 40% of
VOCs when they dry, our brand of ink is releasing none at all.

The inks are created from the oils you would find in vegetables
such as soybeans, linseed, canola, and safflower. Using solely
vegetable based inks instead of oil based pigmented inks
allows the printing press to use NON HAZARDOUS fluids to
clean the printing rollers.

Our stock papers are certified under either the FSC or PEFC scheme and
purchased via the Woodland Trust Carbon Scheme and we are converting our
clients to a mailing film that is potato starch based, this can be recycled in a
home compost bin.





Accredited with Suffolk
Carbon Charter Gold Award.

What a thrill to get recognition for running our business sustainably.
With our carbon footprint calculated we now have a full environmental
action plan in place to reduce it further.

Awards & Accreditations

Bury Free Press WINNER

AWARDS 2015 Award

Celebrating Business Excellence

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PMG annual charity bowling. Bardfest.

Started in 2010 the Precision Annual Charity Bowling Evening We are thrilled to support a local music festival that started in 2010 and has grown
is a much loved & hotly contested event. over the last 10 years from a small village event into a festival weekend attracting
8000 + visitors. What started as a simple family friendly village event run as a
Over the years we have raised money for Macmillan Cancer fundraiser for the local cricket club now raises significant funds to improve facilities
Support and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, this year we in the local community and for other local charities. With the new pavilion scheduled
raised over £350 for Hillside Animal Sanctuary. for completion in September 2019 it was fantastic to raise over £40,000 this year.
We are proud to be sponsors.

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We are looking for companies to join us this summer for
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to St Nicholas Hospice Care.

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Football shirt friday. all, have fun along the way! How can you join?

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Shirt Friday in April. Everyone jumped at the chance to
show their colours and pay a price for the privilege of October.
wearing their football shirt to work, we weren’t fussy businesses. Starting in July with an initial £50 grant the aim is to
what shaped balls were represented and had a good
number of rugby shirts on display too! be the business that uses the money to their best advantage and

generates the biggest return. Following the success of raising the

most money of any participating business in 2018 the ideas are

already flowing for the 2019 challenge.

Macmillan world’s biggest coffee morning. The Doxa project.

We never need an excuse to eat cake but we all look forward The Doxa Project is a charity community project in Kwa Murugi Kenya
to the Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Held every supporting children with education, families with weekly food distribution,
September it brings the bakers amongst us out in force and we encouraging people to work with small business start-ups and putting
turn our staff canteen into a coffee shop for the day and invite clean water filters into homes to support health and wellbeing. Our
our neighbouring businesses, clients and staff to join us and eat contribution to the outstanding work that they do is to print their
as much cake as we can. newsletter free of charge helping them to spread the word about their
activity and to reach as many potential donors as possible.

St Nicholas Hospice girls night out. Cherish Uganda.

The centre of Bury St Edmunds is filled on a night in September with Our business relies heavily on technology and having daily use
2500 women wearing pyjamas and sporting glowing bunny ears of up to date computer hardware and software. In recognition of
once a year for the Big Girls Night Out, a sponsored night time 11.2 the fortunate place we find ourselves in, we joined forces with
mile walk. The Precision girls love to get involved in this event and we Cherish a charity in Uganda which focuses on the rescue and
match the money raised by the team members as well as sponsoring rehabilitation of children with HIV/AIDS. We donated money
the event. to help them furnish their school with laptops and a new
operating system.

#10 Day Compostable
Poly Challenge.

We are always looking for ways to So, to protect ours and our clients’ integrity,
make our print and mail services more we wanted to test the product before we could
sustainable and are very conscious actively promote it. Here’s the fun bit, we used
that we have a duty of care to our grass clippings from the Precision wildflower
environment both locally and globally, garden and filled a green garden waste bin, then
such is the reach of mail. we attached some potato based mailing film to
a frame and placed it in the compost bin! From
We have a determination to do our bit to tackle there we completed daily inspections and film
the scourge of plastic and polythene waste in the decomposition process.
society by working with our clients to change
to a compostable potato based mailing film for So does it work? Well they say the camera
their magazine, catalogue and brochure mailings. never lies, as the pictures show our potato starch
There have been reports that this type of film is film composted to virtually nothing inside 7 days!
ineffective and in reality does not degrade as the
manufacturers would have us believe.

See for yourself at . . .

https://www.precisionmarketinggroup.co.uk/
10-day-compostable-poly-challenge



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