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The Label Printers has chosen TLMI is (Tag and Label Manufacturer is Institute, Inc.) Label Initiative For the Environment (L.I.F.E.) to guide the company is ongoing efforts to become greener. Director of Human Resources (and TTLMI is Illinois EPA Compliance Representative) George Tommasi, the L.I.F.E. team leader and senior executive on the team says, "We decided that we wanted to explore an environmental program for The Label Printers because we wanted to make our existing green efforts more structured, focused, and visible. We looked at investing in a number of different environmental programs. One of the main reasons we chose L.I.F.E. is because it is designed for label converters and we felt that we would get better results from a program that came from people who understood the printing industry, specifically label printing." The Label Printers green efforts had typically grown out of an ISO/CQIP environment. Individuals within the organization would offer suggestions on how to make incremental quality improvements and/or incremental cost savings by doing things such as reducing the use of solvent-based inks, changing lighting in the plant, recycling scrap, etc. "L.I.F.E.," said The Label Printer is General Manager Lori Campbell, "gives us a way to formalize and perhaps speed up what we were already doing. It will give us the means to have a green program with progressively greater impact." The first goal of the L.I.F.E. team is to learn more about the program, and then go through the process of establishing a stake in the ground on their current efforts. Says Tommasi, "We need to look at what we have done to be a good environmental steward over the years, and then we can identify our L.I.F.E. goals, and how to accomplish and measure those goals. L.I.F.E. provides both a self audit and an external audit to help us identify areas that will allow us to reduce our environmental footprint, and lessen our environmental impact." TLMI/L.I.F.E. has partnered with NSF International, The Public Health and Safety Co., to build the external audit. |
