Printers unaware of the cost of environmental slip-ups face potentially cripplingfines and clean-up costs. Ten years ago, a container of glue was delivered to the Leicester site of GI Solutions and was left in the yard. In itself, there was nothing unusual about this. However, a major environmental problem was silently lurking - the container was cracked and leaking glue across the site into a drain. "We hadn't realised that it had happened until the local council came knocking on our door," explains GI sales director Patrick Headley. "Luckily, the glue was non-toxic and it happened over a period of three to four days."
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