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Colart's Sustainability Overview

Lefranc Bourgeois is delighted to announce the new watercolour campaign taking place this fall and through the end of the year, hosted on social media, the website and in-store. The campaign’s focus is on eco-responsibility and nature.

We are sharing Bcorp presentation across Colart. Available in English, French and Chinese.

We invited Ajita Chamberlin, Quality and Sustainability Manager and Olivia Grimes, Sustainability Coordinator, to talk about Sustainability and Bcorp.

After significant talks and assessment of the makeup of our products, the Terracycle regulatory team has confirmed that they do not have the necessary capabilities or collaborations to be able to recycle our packaging. Whilst this is a disappointing setback, it will not stop us!

Our guests this week included UK Manufacturing and Operations Support General Manager, Richard Llewellyn and Quality & Sustainability Manager, Ajita Chamberlin.

Lindengruppen published their Sustainability Report 2020 last month. This year’s report provides an update on the Group’s sustainability progress.

We are delighted to introduce you to Colart’s 2020-2021 Sustainable Report. The report highlights the economic, environmental, and social impacts caused by our everyday activities.

Lawrence Hutchinson, our Global Head of Packaging, has a key role not just in his everyday job but as an ambassador to make sure the conversation on sustainability is at the heart of our brands.

REMOVE, REDUCE, REUSE OR RECYCLE our packaging wherever possible.

An ambassador’s role isn't just between nine to five; it's a commitment to a lifestyle change. Being a sustainability ambassador allows me the opportunity to make a difference for the people who come behind us.

Donate discontinued product to your favourite charity.

This announcement explains the different sustainable initiatives and activations that have been taken in Lowestoft not only in 2018 – 2019 but also how that has been developed and where are now. Governance, ethics and compliance In 2018 Colart Lowestoft recorded a non-disclosure agreement with top suppliers and put in place an up to date […]

Sustainability Ambassador, Virginie Girard has made some significant inroads at our Le Mans site in driving environmental actions. Read more about the significant actions and impact.

What is an ambassador? An ambassador is someone who drives change in the organisation, they’ll have full support from Ajita and Richard. The role of Ambassadors: An ‘activist’ network that leads, inspires and supports sustainable practice across Colart: • Notice things which need to change or could be improved • Start, sustain and/or grow experimental […]

As a business, we publish each year a sustainability report which highlights the economic, environmental and social impacts caused by our everyday activities. Colart’s 2019-2020 report is now ready please see attached or click here. Please find the time to have a look through and read it, we have many contributors across the business, and […]