Sustainable^® Mail  ensures environmentally responsible mailing. We have a range of products which can make your direct marketing activities more ecologically aware and sustainable in the future.

Mailsort® 70,120, 700 and Mailsort® 1400 all offer a sustainable option. There is also a sustainable specification available for Door to Door. We are now in the process of exploring how we can extend sustainable solutions to our other bulk mail products.

Together with ISBA, Acxiom and the DMA, Royal Mail worked with BSI British Standards to develop a new environmental standard for direct marketing called PAS 2020, which was launched in January 2009.

Our Sustainable^® Mail specification is aligned to PAS 2020 and gives you guidance on how to prepare your mail to have least environmental impact.

There are two levels in our specification: Entry level and Intermediate level. These will evolve over time to reflect changing capabilities of local authorities to recycle material, as well as technological developments in the industry. Changes to the product specification will be linked to changes to the PAS 2020 specification, which will be reviewed at least every two years. You will be given at least three months notice of any changes to the specification. 

 Download the Sustainable® Mail specification