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Nouvelles cartes FairMail imprimées avec des encres biodégradables

lundi, octobre 26th, 2015
FairMail's new fairtrade postcard collection

FairMail’s new fairtrade postcard collection

Nous sommes heureux de dévoiler avec vous la nouvelle collection de cartes FairMail! Elles sont simplement superbes sous toutes leurs coutures. Des compositions colorées accompagnées de textes stylisés, une histoire inspirante en arrière de chaque cliché et maintenant respectueuse de l’environnement grâce à leur impression avec des encres végétales! Sérieusement, est-il possible de faire mieux?

 

Les 36 nouvelles cartes conviennent pour une variété d’occasion: anniversaire, chance, amitié, rétablissement, voyage, remerciement, condoléance et nouvelle habitation.

 

Notre imprimeur hollandais, Context Cards, est tellement satisfait avec la qualité des encres biodégradables qu’il songe maintenant à les utiliser pour l’impression de toutes les autres gammes de cartes. Hourra, c’est une grande victoire pour mère nature!

 

Pour avoir un aperçu de nos nouvelles cartes cliquez ici!

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(English) FairMail 2012 Calendar almost sold out!

vendredi, décembre 30th, 2011

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English, Nederlands et Español.

FairMail's 2012 fair trade calendar

FairMail's 2012 fair trade calendar

FairMail’s new 2012 fair trade calendar (click here for webversion) just arrived and almost sold out straight away!

The big calendar has 12 pictures made by the teenagers from FairMail Peru. Each month contains a different picture and a personal story and picture of the teenager who took that month’s beautiful pictures.  50% of the profit of the sale goes to the teenagers personal education fund.

Also nice to know is that the calendar is printed with biodegradable ink, on FSC certified paper at a printer that off-sets its CO2 emissions.

After the 2011 calendar already sold out in September we printed twice as much this year. But still after the pre-orders there are currently only 145 calendars left. So if you want to be sure you won’t be late again this year for this great calendar, just order on-line through FairMail’s webshop.

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(English) FairMail cards printed with biodegradable ink

vendredi, décembre 9th, 2011

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English, Nederlands et Español.

FairMail believes that besides the people and the profit also the planet should benefit from its activities. Also regarding the environment FairMail wants to be the 100% responsable alternative greeting card! So what does that mean in practice?

In January 2011 the first FairMail cards where printed using so called bio-inkts. That means that the ink used is based on vegetable oils like line seed and soy oil. You might never have thought about it but conventional inks use mineral oils as basis and so aren’t bio degradable plus make use of a non renewable resource!

Besides that our envelopes and cards are printed on FSC certified paper. That means the woodpulp comes from sustainably managed forests that comply with the criteria of the Forest Stewardship Council.

Since spring of 2009 FairMail uses cello bags made from biodegradablecorn starch to pack our cards. So after unpacking your card you can throw it on the compost heap!

The next step for FairMail is printing the cards closer to the end used. That way we can reduce the transport distance and the CO2 emision.

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(English) FairMail now 100% biodegradable

mardi, février 16th, 2010

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English, Nederlands et Español.

Good news for the planet: FairMail is now 100% biodegradable.

The cello bags we use to pack our folded greeting cards are now made from biodegradable corn starch. So after unpacking your card you can chuck it on the compost heap to fertilize your garden.

FairMail cards where already printed on FSC certified paper and the envelopes made of recycled paper. The only thing missing now is to persuade our Peruvian printer to switch to soy based bio-inks.

That might still take a little while, but you bet we want to give it a shot. So FairMail doesn’t only have a good social story, but, so the environment also benefits if people buy FairMail cards in stead of ordinary cards.

Just look at how happy that makes our card packers!

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