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Paarl Media's commitment in developing stringent environmental policies is reflected by an investment of more than R100 million in environmentally responsible practices to ensure the lowest possible impact on our natural resources.

The Paarl Media Group led the way in South Africa in 2005 by installing Regenerative Thermal Oxidisers (RTO's) to service all web presses to eliminate harmful emissions in line with stringent international standards. Energy is recovered from the oxidisation process to be re-utilised in the drying section; thereby also vastly reducing gas energy consumption. All the web presses also run alcohol free and volatile organic compound free, vegetable-based inks are used on the sheetfed presses.

On the gravure presses, the evaporated ink solvent, Toluene, is recovered and sold back to the ink manufacturers for re-use. The used gravure copper skins from engraved cylinders are recycled and copper is recovered.

All waste paper generated is recycled using sophisticated baling facilities at all the plants.