The organisation, a partnership between the BPIF and regional development agency Yorkshire Forward, is also offering 500 grants to companies implementing environmental projects.

Print Yorkshire has teamed up with charitable trust Groundwork Leeds to put on the morning events, which have around 15 places each, on 18 and 26 January. Further seminars will be planned in March if the two scheduled events are a success.

Print Yorkshire director Mike Hopkins said: "There's more to environmental management than saving the planet. There are benefits to the local community, and good environmental practice leads to improvement of the bottom line.

"Some people look upon environmental practice as something they want to do. Some think it will be good for marketing a company, and some ask what it means in pound notes. We want to appeal to all those groups."

For more information, contact Lisa Huntingdon on 01924 203338.