PrintReleaf Expands Partnership with Xerox with Carbon Offset Program

Earlier this month, PrintReleaf announced it’s partnering with Xerox on its Verified Carbon Neutrality Service for managed print services (MPS).

In collaboration with Xerox, PrintReleaf says it’s developed the logistics required to promote sustainability in MPS, making it possible for Xerox clients around the world to work towards carbon neutrality for their printer fleets. This is said to be the first of its kind in the print industry, an MPS program providing third-party verification according to the ISO 14068 Carbon Neutrality standard.

Under the program, PrintReleaf will issue a certified mix of carbon offset types, including reduction and avoidance, in compliance with the standard.

PrintReleaf Reforestation Service

Since 2018, PrintReleaf has provided Xerox accounts with reforestation service that offsets the biomass of the equivalent number of trees used to produce the paper consumed by the enterprise.

As of 2022, Xerox accounts have also had the option to add carbon offsets, addressing the emissions associated with the production of the paper running through an MPS printer fleet. It’s typically determined that paper carbon emissions account for upwards of 50 percent of the total emissions associated with printer use.

Aiming for Carbon Neutrality

To help enterprises achieve carbon neutrality, PrintReleaf says it’s necessary to assess a broader scope of the carbon emissions associated with printing, across the entire lifecycle of a printer fleet.

With this new chapter of the partnership, PrintReleaf will now assist Xerox clients in offsetting emissions associated with a more robust accounting of the carbon emissions of a fleet, from manufacturing, to shipping, to warehouses, transporting devices to clients, the energy used in running those devices and the recycling and disposal management of the devices at the end of their useful life.

About PrintReleaf’s Reforestation Initiative

PrintReleaf is said to help companies meet their sustainability goals by automatically reforesting the equivalence of their paper and fiber-based materials consumption, and offsetting the carbon emissions associated with their paper and packaging products, and now the carbon emissions of the whole fleet.

For more information, visit PrintReleaf here.