Beat Goes Green

Printing several thousand magazines is not the most environmentally friendly process, nor is keeping huge vessels airborne over land and sea.

This is something Caribbean Beat's two parent companies, MEP and Caribbean Airlines, are mindful of, and both have programmes in place to reduce their – and Caribbean Beat's – carbon footprints as much as possible.

In the last few years, MEP has instituted a recycling programme and donates working electronic equipment to charities and community projects whenever upgrading our machinery. But that's not all:

• We've switched to the much more efficient web-press technology that saves thousands of pages worth of paper wastage for our high-volume magazine production
• Last September, we reduced the size of Caribbean Beat (did you notice?) from from A4 to US Letter, saving about a million pages worth of paper with every issue
• We also brought the production closer to home, moving from a London printery to one in the region, closer to Caribbean Airlines' existing distribution points in the Americas
• Our new printers use soy-based inks containing up to 13% soy oil and 23-25% ink renewables
• We use only FSC certified papers

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) also subscribers to carbon offsetting practices with its fleet:

• CAL has invested in wing tips for their entire Boeing 737-800 fleet, decreasing the company's CO2 emissions by up to 3,825 tonnes last year alone

• For every one tonne of CO2 CAL generates, the company aims to invest in a project to save an equivalent one tonne of CO2 through a project somewhere else – like planting trees or swapping kerosene in remote areas of India for solar panels. Caribbean Airlines partners with The CarbonNeutral Company® in this effort.

• Passengers can join in the effort to reduce the impact of carbon emissions in the environment by choosing to offset their own share of flight emissions with just a small contribution