Ethical Marketing

At the Union we are concious that our marketing uses resources. We believe in our responsibility to minimise our impact on the environment, the planet and people. To that end we undertake the following:

Flyers or Wallplanners?

We take the view that wallplanners have a broad appeal and that retention by our customers is higher. To that end, we generally do not produce flyers as we believe they are wasteful and cause a litter problem. Councils can now issue fixed penalty notices of £80 to originators and litterers for dropping litter (including fliers). Read more, here.

Flyer & Wallplanner Printing

• We use companies certified to ISO 14001, it specifies the requirements for an organisation's environmental management system, it is voluntary and shows that the company are voluntarily undertaking to do responsible business. Find out more here.
• The paper our suppliers use is FSC certified and chlorine free. This means that the trees used to provide wood to the paper millers are managed and have been recognised as sustainable. You can read more, here.
• Our printer also gives us an undertaking to properly recycle their inks, plates and dangerous materials through reputable and accredited suppliers.
• Vegetable based inks are used and developer is no longer used, which dramatically reduces water consumption.
• We do not use recycled paper. This is because sustainable forests are better, as recycling requires collection of old paper and increases the papers carbon footprint. We do recycle our unused marketing.

Poster printing

We do not currently have information on our poster printers ethical commitments, however we will and it will be published here shortly.