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The modern sustainability movement has ebbed and flowed over the past several decades, beginning with a report titled “Our Common Future” also known as the “Brundtland Report” in 1987 by the UN’s World Commission for Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The report defined the principle of sustainable development as, “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
In recent years, two events brought attention to sustainability in the printing industry. First, National Geographic launched a campaign to reduce waste from plastic products, such as single-use bags and straws, called Planet or Plastics? The National Geographic initiative i