Environmental Impact Considerations

Have you considered the environmental impact of your advertising and signage strategy?
Advances in technology and innovation within our industry have created new opportunities for us to pass significant benefits on to you – from reducing your carbon footprint through minimising the number of journeys we make, to helping you make savings on your energy bills with efficient lighting solutions and keeping up with the advances in LED technology.

Whatever your green strategy, we can help you achieve your goals, without compromising on the quality and expertise in signage and advertising you’ve come to expect from us.

Traditional advertising and the environment

Traditional forms of printing and production sometimes have a bad name when it comes to ‘green’ solutions because they require careful consideration with regards to waste and recycling.

But our experts at Astra Signs are knowledgeable about these processes, and will always deliver the best-fit solution for your needs, while making sure it remains as green as possible.

We’ve also sourced a significant number of alternative products from sustainable and recycled sources that can help you achieve your green objectives, and be even kinder to the environment.

Digital signage

The introduction of improved digital signage options, and the development of LED technology, has created even more opportunities for businesses to reduce their impact on the environment.

• Digital signage can show countless different messages that can be updated remotely. That means you can change your communication more frequently without relying on new paper posters being printed, and our vans making the trip to deliver them.

• You can vary the power consumption and brightness of your LED signage solution, even setting ‘off peak’ hours where the lights go out all together, allowing you to boost the visual impact of your brand by day, save energy by night.

• LED has a neon-like effect, enhancing the brightness and visibility of your communication, but produces more light per watt, making it much more energy efficient, and extremely long-lasting

And there’s more…

At Astra Signs, we’re committed to making a difference to the environment, and as a company, we’ve implemented our own green strategies to help us practice what we preach.

We’ve published our Environmental Objectives for 2013: To demonstrate how passionate we are about reducing our impact on the planet, we’ve published our goals for 2013 here. We’re already working hard to achieve them, and we’ll update you on our progress at the end of the year.

We’re part of the Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme: We help retailers across the UK change their fluorescent lighting to ECA-compliant LEDs – significantly reducing their running costs and CO2 emissions, improving the reliability of their lighting and allowing them to claim back up to 28% of their investment in new company signage!

Transport: In 2010, we replaced each of our vehicles with the new EEV (Enhanced Environmentally-Friendly Vehicles) Crafter Euro V Blue TDI Vans. The Crafter vans are among the cleanest and most refined vehicles in their group.

Environmental Business Pledge: We were recently awarded the bronze medal in the Manchester-based Environmental Business Pledge and we are currently working towards our silver award

Carbon Footprint: We are committed to reducing our emissions by 10% in 2013 and have formally signed the 10:10 campaign in recognition of this goal.

When you’re working with us at Astra Signs, you can rest assured that you’re not only doing the best for your business, but your bit for the environment too.