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Think Print and PaperAren’t Sustainable?
Think Again!
1 In the US we grow more trees than we harvest
For the past 100 years, forestland has remained at about 750 million acres even thought the population has tripled
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Landowners receive income for trees grown on their land
This encourages the maintenance, renewal, and management of forest resources sustainably
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• In 2005, the forest products industry
produced more than 4/5 of the total biomass
energy generated by all U.S. industrial
sectors
• The Print and Paper industry accounts for
only 1.1% of global carbon dioxide emissions
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• The total energy use per ton of production
at U.S. paper mills has been reduced by 8.2%
since 1990
• Energy and fossil fuel use per ton of
production was reduced by 26%
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Supporting Sustainability
Forest products can require little or no fossil fuels for production
They store carbon throughout their lives and have inherent climate change advantages over other competing materials
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Supporting Sustainability
Paper• Comes from a renewable
resource• Is recyclable• Is recycled more than any other
commodity in the U.S.• Has great carbon characteristics
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Supporting Tradition Paper has been around for thousands of years and even in this digital age,
memories and relationships in business are built on paper and print. In fact, a lot of people don’t realize the impact that electricity or e-media
has on the environment, and it’s not all that surprising given that the fad of the decade stems from the slogan, “Go paperless.” This slogan treads on the one virtue that everyone would agree on today:
The best answer never focuses on one single characteristic of a problem. Don’t leave this page thinking that companies should only use paper. There’s a healthy combination to best meet economic needs, and researchers have been working to find it.
The KTH Center for Sustainable Communications reported, “With a reading time of 30 minutes/day the environmental impact of the web based newspaper was in general in the same range as the printed newspaper environmental impact.”
Text messages are not forever and even if you save en email, reading that email again will not make you feel the same as holding your newborn’s birth announcement or your award for Top Sales in your hands.
Supporting Innovation
The Duplex Shipping label features NO waste, as the liner that is normally discarded now serves as the packing list.
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