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of participating studios growing. The Standard helps us focus on where we can make improvements to reduce our environmental impact over six key areas: climate (drive towards net zero); circularity (minimising waste and use of materials); nature (protecting and enhancing green space); people (wellbeing of visitors, workers, communities and supply chains); management (management, governance and training to improve sustainability); and data (keeping accurate records). BB: We can’t change everything all in one go. For me, shifting the needle is a better way for the industry to make painful changes. The first to go were single-use plastics. Next was tungsten, and soon HMIs will follow the path to retirement, while LEDs have found a path from obscurity to mainstream use. While there are still die-hards out there,
we retired our polystyrene boards some years ago in favour of reusable, flexible diffusion and bounce boards – and others are slowly following. EVs are now a much more common sight on the road, and many sets ban the use of single-use plastics altogether. Solid-state storage is already much more climate-friendly than the tape stock that it replaced – and which would today be considered a huge environmental cost. Considering all the steps that our industry has already taken – and with the growing importance of albert making people more climate-conscious – I’d say that we have enjoyed a good amount of success already! FP: Rather than thinking about sustainability in filmmaking as an end goal, it’s more helpful to think of it as an ongoing journey, with companies implementing practices that minimise
RATHER THAN reinvent the wheel, USE TOOLS AND CERTIFICATES from albert to define targets ”
JET SET A Sustainable Production Alliance report says tentpole films have an average carbon footprint of 3370 metric tonnes
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