Ethical Wedding Staionery

At Eco Print we offer beautifully made wedding stationery designed to your taste.

 We offer a bespoke design service and environmental printing.

All printing is done using organic based digital inks onto recycled papers and cards. Ranging from our standard white 100% recycled stock through to our exotic recycled Rhino Poo and Bier Label materials, together we are sure to find the right one for you.

Our Rhino Poo card is ideal for those looking for a card that has a good texture and feel to it. It is an earthy card with bits of ‘you know what’ (all sourced from UK safaris) visible, made from both post consumer waste paper and Rhino Poo.

The Bier Lager card has proved very popular for invitations. Available in a light cream flecked with brown this card is made from recycled beer mats and labels as well as some hops and yeast. What a great way to reuse resources!

If you have any questions or would like to find out more please call James or Graham on 01722 340350 or see our website http://www.ecoprintuk.com

weddings@ecoprintuk.com

Eco Print is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

The Rhino Poo pad has been ethically produced by Eco Print using 100% recycled paper and card made from Real Rhino Poo (sourced from UK Safari Parks). It is safe and odourless…yes most people have a sniff! The plastic spiral binder is recyclable and the ink and paper is 100% biodegradable. They even come in a biodegradable clear display bag; A truly Eco Product.

No Rhinos were harmed in the making of these pads. 

Order your Poo pads now at printing@ecoprintuk.com

The Asian Inspired collection Couples Quality and Design with Environmental and Ethical Conscience.

The first stationery collection from Betty and Betts launches this month and not only are the hand-made notebooks 100 percent eco-friendly and 100 percent organic, they are also 100 percent ethically produced through genuine trade partnerships with Indian suppliers certified by the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO).

The collection is anchored by the trademark “BETTY BOOK”, a soft-backed, hard-wearing, high-quality board and organic covered notebook that is perfect for school-kids, students, young professionals, business people, and anyone with a need to make a note.

Betties latest campaign is called BUY ONE PLANT ONE. For every book you buy £1 of it will go back to panting a tree for reforestation and environmental education. The second campaign is BUY ONE GIVE ONE. For every book you buy £1 of it will go back to giving a child a much needed school-book for their education.

Betty and Betts founders, JoJo Blythen and Tanya Clarke from Daventry, UK, established the brand after living in India for almost four years and seeing the desperate poverty surrounding them every day. Between them, ‘The Betties’ have nearly 20 years of experience in design and retail management, across the UK and India.

According to ‘The Betties’: “Betty and Betts was founded on the belief that help should be given through genuine trade, not through aid. We passionately want to effect the way business exists, enabling people to change the world they live in by being radical pioneers for people and the environment”. By partnering with WFTO suppliers, they will plough 50 percent of the profits back into local communities, providing them with much needed schooling, AIDS awareness, and health care.

All Betty and Betts products are available in A4, A5, A6 and in slim Flip back sizes, priced from £5.99 and will be available from 1st November 2009 online at www.bettyandbetts.com and in select retailers. For more information, log onto www.bettyandbetts.com

The
winners of the fourth annual Observer Ethical Awards, in association
with Ecover, were announced on the 3rd June at a ceremony hosted by Colin
Firth at the Kensington Roof Gardens in London. Sir David Attenborough
received a lifetime achievement award from Observer editor, John
Mullholland.

Readers
of The Observer selected leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, as
Politician of the Year; Human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, was
awarded Campaigner of the Year. Ethical bed manufacturer, Warren Evans,
won Local Retailer of the Year and the Good Energy Shop collected the
prize for the Best Online Initiative of the Year.  

Lucy
Siegle, Observer columnist and chair of the judging panel, said: “Four
years in and still is a great honour to be the chair of such a valuable
and exciting event. The Observer Ethical Awards are now well
established and celebrate and reward those who to make living in a
sustainable way possible.”

The
Observer Ethical Awards are instrumental in bringing green issues to
the forefront of consumer minds and making businesses reassess their
attitudes towards sustainability.

The
remaining categories were voted for by a celebrity judging panel that
included Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London; Ben Okri, Author;
Rick Edwards, TV Presenter and Deborah Meaden of Dragon’s Den.

Ketan who is technical director of Ethical
Junction and Kate, who is EJ’s administrator, recently got married.
The couple are both vegans so they had an all vegan wedding (everyone
really liked the food!) and they set out to use as many Ethical Junction
companies as possible as part of their wedding. Kate and Ket would like
to give a big Thank You to all of the Ethical Junction companies that
they were able to make use of for their products and services as part
of their wedding.  

They gleaned tips, practical advice and
inspiration from both Green Union and Ethical Weddings. Their rings
were ethically sourced from Fifi Bijoux

Kate, the Bride made her own dress and
jacket using organic fabric from Greenfibres, and wore shoes from Beyond
Skin, her necklace was from Natural Collection, her handbag was from
Feel Good Handbags, her make up from Beauty Without Cruelty and Inika.
Both the bride and groom used skin care products from Green People and
Simply Soaps, hair care products used were from both Faith In Nature
and Daniel Field.

Ket, The Groom wore an organic linen
suit (unfortunately not from an EJ, a gap in the marketplace there people!).
Ket’s shoes were from Natural Collection. The beautiful faritrade
roses that were used for the buttonholes and the bride’s bouquet were
from Imogen Stone (Kate kept the fairtrade tags on the rose stems).  

Paper for the invites, place settings,
and table names was from the Exotic Paper Company and envelopes from
Eco-Craft. All the alcohol was from Vintage Roots (organic and vegan).
A Lot of Candles who is part of the company A Lot of Chocolates supplied
organic candles.

Ket’s band played to the guests as part of the evenings entertainment, and is currently having a bass guitar custom built by Simon Lee Guitars .

The couple used gift lists from Greenfibres,
Our Green Wedding List, Natural Collection and Bishopston Trading. The
honeymoon destination later in the year is to be at Bloomfield House. 

Kate and Ket would like to say, “Thank
you to you all 22 Ethical Junction members for making our day so wonderful and memorable.” 

Final Greener Festival Awards announced- twelve more festivals pick up the eco-award

Seven English festivals including The Big Chill, Bestival, Summer Sundae Weekender, Shambala, Reading, Leeds and End of the Road along with Scotland’s Hydro Connect, Ireland’s Electric Picnic, Portugal’s Boom, Southbound in Australia and the Rothbury Festival in the USA have joined the illustrious list of winners for the 2008 Greener Festival Award.

All of the award winners were praised by organisers www.agreenerfestival.com for thier efforts to promote environmentally friendly music festivals.

The independent award is based on a seven part questionnaire which covers event management, travel and transport plans, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, fair trade, waste management and recycling, water management and noise pollution. Points are awarded for festivals which can show an active plan to promote public transport, reduce on-site waste, recycle and compost wherever possible, re-use water and use sustainable power.

Festivals are expected to have a coherent environmental policy and the organisers have environmental auditors who visit as many festival sites as possible to assess how festivals implement their plans. In total twenty three UK festivals and eight international festivals have won the award. Six festivals gained the ultimate accolade of the ‘outstanding’ award from the organisers including the Waveform and Shambala festivals in the UK and Bonnaroo in the USA.

A Greener Festival co-founder Claire O’Neill said “this year applications for our awards more than doubled and this is fantastic news. More and more festivals are making the effort go green and adopt environmentally friendly practices. Some festivals are still improving and going through a steep learning curve, others are old hands now who keep improving their green credentials year on year. The UK and international festival scene is now making a concerted effort to be leaders in changing behaviour to protect the environment”.

The organisers also congratulated the eighteen festivals who had won the Green ‘n’ Clean award from Yourope, the European festivals organisation. A Greener Festival’s Luke Westbury added ‘We fully endorse and support Yourope’s award and the progress they are making. Across both Europe and the UK we can see significant and positive change. Green n Clean have some fantastic festivals taking part including Denmark’s Roskilde, St Gallen Open Air in Swtitzerland, Rheinkultur in Germany, Pinkpop in the Nederlands and Finland’s Provinssirock. We salute them!

The Full list of 2008 winners is below:

THE GREEN FESTIVAL AWARD
Bestival
Big Chill
Big Session Festival
Camden Green Fair (outstanding award)
The Cambridge Folk Festival
City Blues Festival (Leicester)
Download
End of the Road
The Glade Festival
The Glastonbury Festival
Hard Rock Calling
Hydro Connect
Latitude
Leeds Festival
Leicester City Blues Festival
Lounge on the Farm
02 Wireless Festival
Reading Festival
Shambala (outstanding award)
Summer Sundae Weekender
T-in-the-Park
Waveform (outstanding award)
Workhouse Festival
2000 Tree

It all started on Christmas Day 2006. We sat and watched the children open their presents with all the joy and excitement we hoped there would be. But as the unwrapped present pile grew Bigger so did the pile of discarded wrapping paper. This was a turning point, the realisation that all that paper was going into land-fill.

We knew that we alone could not stop and would not want to stop people from sending cards and wrapping presents but surely we could do something

Our aim from that moment on was to make a difference and in January 2007 we set about producing a Recycled, Eco-friendly range of Greeting Cards and Wrapping Paper.

We researched, studied and learned. We sourced the papers, which had to have a high recycled content and had to be FSC certified. Then the inks. We only wanted to print with Vegetable inks (no nasty VOC’s) and we only wanted to work with like-minded companies who cared and like us, wanted to make a difference. We even found envelopes that are 60% recycled juice cartons and 100 % recycled plus fully compostable wrappers.

Now 12 months on, we have launched several collections of Recycled Eco-friendly ranges of Cards and wrapping paper all FSC certified and all can be Recycled or composted.

The latest collection being our Christmas range which is hitting the shops right now. So ,this Christmas we have the pleasure of knowing that on Christmas Day our presents have been wrapped in recycled paper and our pile of discarded wrapping paper is going to be heading straight for the recycling bin. We sincerely hope many other families will be doing the same.

If you would like more information please visit our website, email us at info@recocards.co.uk or call us on 01395 567286.