Forests Paper
| Paper Buying Guides: | |
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www.nrdc.org |
NRDC's A Shopper's Guide to Home Tissue Products. *** |
assets.panda.org |
WWF Guide to buying Paper, provides useful insights and practical tips on what can be done to minimize the negative environmental and social impacts of paper production. PDF. |
| Paper Industry: | |
www.greenpressinitiative.org |
Green Press Initiative, a non-profit, works with book and newspaper industry stakeholders to conserve natural resources, preserve endangered forests, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and minimize impacts on indigenous communities. |
www.arc.ab.ca |
Paper made from Wheat Straw-being produced in Canada. The Wheat Sheet is the result of a partnership between Markets Initiative, Canadian Geographic magazine, the Alberta Research Council, NewPage and Dollco Printing. PDF. |
| "If every American household bought just one roll of toilet tissue made from 100 percent post-consumer fiber, enough waste to fill 1700 garbage trucks would be avoided, and 375000 trees and 155 million gallons of water would be saved." http://etd.lib.ttu.edu.pdf |
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| Paper Orgs: | |
www.environmentalpaper.org |
Environmental Paper Network—a resource for purchasers, environmental organizations, industry, and individuals. A diverse group of environmental organizations has joined together to support socially and environmentally sustainable transformations within the pulp and paper industry. Asheville, NC. |
panda.org |
World Wildlife Fund's Paper page with links to guides for paper producers as well as commercial and individual paper buyers. Paper news as well. |
www.conservatree.org |
Conservatree is a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs. Expert advice and leadership on paper choices. Information on environmental papers. Based in San Fran. |
www.shrinkpaper.org |
Shrink Paper. Pledge to use less paper. Since the 1960s, world consumption of paper has quadrupled and use of printing paper has increased six-fold. A European org. |
| Over half of processed paper is used for packaging. | |
| Paper Reports: | |
panda.org |
World Wildlife Fund. Reports on Paper. |
donotmail.org |
Forest Ethics. 'Climate Change Enclosed: Junk Mail’s Impact on Global Warming' PDF. *** |
www.greenpressinitiative.org |
Environmental Paper Network. "The State of the Paper Industry Monitoring the Indicators of Environmental Performance" 2007. Lots of info-graphs. PDF. *** |
| Paper Videos: | |
www.wrm.org.uy |
World Rainforest Movement Video on paper consumption. *** |
www.secret-life.org |
The Secret Life of Paper, an informative 5 minute film about the environmental impacts of paper production and consumption. |
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"Americans use 27 percent of the wood commercially harvested worldwide, |
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