Take the Green Book Alliance Stakeholder Survey 2023

In 2020, BIC, BISG, and BNC formed the International Green Book Supply Chain Alliance. As an early step, it surveyed the industry to understand better what steps toward sustainability had been taken by a range of supply-chain participants. A bit more than two years later, the GBA is repeating the survey to show progress areas and highlight ongoing opportunities.

What follows is a short, top-level survey whose results will provide the industry with an overview/summary of current sustainability efforts. As in 2020, all answers will be treated in confidence. Responses may be aggregated to provide a summary report, but attribution to individual responses will not be made. There are 18 questions and an optional section at the end to add more information. Please be as forthcoming as possible, as your answers will help inform our supply chain sustainability agenda.

Please start the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/J9Q22XR

Recent sustainability news

Publisher Weekly's LBF Daily from April 19th had some sustainability news that mentioned the Green Book Alliance and the winner of the Sustainability Initiative Award.

https://www.digitalpw.com/digitalpw/london_show_daily_april_19_2023/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&folio=20#pg20

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BookNet Canada's April Podcast features an interview with Brian O'Leary from BISG on the work that Green Book Alliance is doing. It also features interviews with two publishers, making their operations greener.

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BIC has recently released its BIC's Designed for Recycling Project Part 1 – Life Cycle Assessment report.

"The purpose of this project was to assess the recycling and waste programs that are used in the book industry and report on the materials being disposed of vs recycled, the carbon footprint impact of books etc."

https://bic.org.uk/resources/resource-centre/bic-green-hub/bic-reports-and-guidance/

Introducing the GBA Publisher-Printer Sustainability Checklist

After lengthy consultations with publishers and printers in Canada, the UK and the US, we are happy to make our Printer-Publisher Sustainability Checklist available. The checklist can be viewed online and downloaded from the GBA website.

The checklist aims to help foster discussions between publishers and printers around environmental sustainability in manufacturing books. The checklist was produced in a Q&A format to represent sustainability questions that publishers are asking of printers and how printers might answer those questions.

A special thanks to all the publishers and printers that participated in developing this checklist.