Forest & Bird Magazine

Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 2, 1 May 1990, Page 43

Forest & Bird Magazine

Members often ask questions about the production of Forest & Bird magazine. Bascands of Christchurch, who have recently taken over printing of the magazine, boast an environmental record that no other New Zealand printer can match. The ovens on the printing presses emit waste gases, which are fed into a combustion chamber fuelled by LPG and ignited at 700° celsius. The recirculating hot water system surrounding the chamber provides 80 percent of the company’s heating. Gases are purified upon combustion and the 99.6 percent cleansed air filters invisibly into the atmosphere. Because so much paper is wasted by printers, Bascands installed a recycling system. Large pipes extract paper excess from the ends of the presses and bindery units. Suction draws the paper up to a cyclone drum where rotary knives slice up the wastage. Paper clippings then spiral down to the baler, and are compressed and strapped for transporting. Forest & Bird is produced from paper milled from sustainable yield Scandinavian forests.