(estimated) tonnes of waste paper saved from landfill every month thanks to our printing lottery tickets on recycled paper
“It’s not exactly a closed loop, but about as close as you can get to it.”
Jeff Stallard of M–real
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Green lottery tickets
Paper recycled from offices in and around London - including Camelot's own offices - is now being used to print lottery tickets.
"It's not exactly a closed loop, but about as close as you can get to it," says Jeff Stallard of M–real, the company which turns office waste paper, from what he calls the 'urban forest', into the high–quality recycled stock now used for lottery tickets. He estimates that the decision to print tickets on recycled paper is saving about 80 tonnes of waste paper from going to landfill every month.
M–real recycles the paper at its Kemsley Mill in Kent and supplies it to Camelot's printers, Stralfors, in Redruth, Cornwall.
The conversion to recycled paper was agreed with the two suppliers when Camelot visited the Kemsley Mill in mid–June 2005, approval for conversion was given in July 2005 and supplies of the paper began in September 2005.
Mike Murphy, Stralfors' managing director, says that the quality of the paper was soon seen to be as good as the virgin pulp previously used for tickets. Trials proved that it was compatible with lottery terminals. "After several months it performed as well if not better than the paper we were using before and we went into full–scale production," says Mike.
He describes the relationship with Camelot as proactive, with good communications with all parts of the company. "Last year I had concerns about getting through to Camelot's marketing people. Since then that's vastly improved."
Stralfors are now looking for other new ways to reduce environmental impacts, including transporting all terminal rolls on reusable pallets. "Camelot are constantly asking us to look at new ways to cut our impact on the environment and challenging us to keep coming up with new ideas."
Camelot continues to use virgin pulp for play slips, to ensure it has a diversity of supply routes. Jeff Stallard is keen to see Camelot eventually move to printing play slips on recycled paper too. "With their level of demand and their technology, I hope they will have the confidence to move to recycled paper on play slips too."
