Seeing the light

Since our meeting with Dave Goebel from Missouri Enterprise, I’ve been researching our options for updating Sportsprint’s lighting system.  Right now our facility is equipped with all T12 lights, and we want to upgrade to the more energy efficient T8 lamps.  Actually, we could go further and upgrade to T5 lights, which are even more [...]

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Grand Unveiling

Here’s our sustainability policy we worked on during our 2nd sustainability committee meeting!  Enjoy!
Sportsprint is a family owned and operated company founded in 1973 specializing in custom screenprinting and embroidery of team and promotional apparel.  As Sportsprint moves into its next generation, we have become more conscious of and committed to making our company more [...]

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Sustainability Committee: Part Deux

Tomorrow is our second Sustainability Committee meeting!  Here’s an overview of some of the items we’ll be discussing at the meeting:
1) We’re going over the Sustainability Policy that I drafted based on our first Sustainability Meeting brainstorming.  So I think after tomorrow I’ll have it available for everyone to see!
2) Expanding upon our ongoing sustainability [...]

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Every little bit helps…

I’m sure you’ve caught on to this, but I’ve decided to alternate full blog posts with a short post with green facts.  It’s a green fact day!
Fun green fact (thanks to Randy, who’s on our Sustainability Committee): recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a computer for three hours or a TV [...]

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Lean, Clean and Green

Last year we had a Missouri Enterprise Lean, Clean and Green assessment performed for Sportsprint, and we just had our follow up meeting this last week.  I learned that Sportsprint was the first company to undergo this assessment.  Until this follow-up meeting, I never fully understood how many changes were made as a result of [...]

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Organic Cotton

Why buy organic shirts?
A cotton t-shirt blended with polyester can release approximately one quarter of its weight in air pollutants and ten times its weight in carbon dioxide.  This fact just astounded me.
It takes 1/3 pound of chemicals to grow one pound of conventional cotton.  So by choosing an organic cotton shirt just once, you [...]

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How we’re already green

Even though I’ve talked about reusing Lard and Kahlua boxes, I haven’t shared a bigger list of what Sportprint is doing to go green.   So here are some examples of what else we’re doing!

Implemented paper recycling program through Pedro’s Planet
Use recycled and biodegradable packaging: we reuse our boxes and use biodegradable bags (we even have [...]

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Coming Soon

One of my major tasks in the upcoming weeks is forming a sustainability committee at Sportsprint that’s…shocker!…sustainable. Since I’m only working at Sportsprint this summer, every step along the way I have to prepare for my transfer of responsibilities, resources, etc. to the rest of the Sustainability Committee. We need a sustainability committee [...]

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Green is the new black

Has anyone heard of “The Lazy Environmentalist”? He’s this author turned TV show host who shows people how to go green by making changes as integrated and easy changes as possible. Before this summer I think I was falling into a lazy environmentalist category: I recycled, changed my light bulbs, and rode my bike often, [...]

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No, we don’t sell lard

Something Sportsprint is very good at already is recycling boxes- cardboard boxes that garments arrive in are used for our shipping. This started for cost-cutting purposes, but it has the double-whammy of being very sustainable.
Sportsprint also buys boxes from a resale company who sells overstock or messed up boxes, so we often deliver our shirts [...]

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