Most virgin pulp and paper is made using hundreds of highly corrosive hazardous chemicals. Producing recycled paper reduces related air pollution by 95%, causes 50% less
water usage, 35% less water pollution,
and creates 5 times the number of jobs
than producing virgin paper. |
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Every day, American businesses generate enough paper to circle the planet more than 20 times. By reusing and recycling all of your
business paper, you can save millions
of trees every year. |
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Americans use enough office paper each year to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from San Francisco to New York City. Buy only recycled or tree-free papers
for your business. Please see the links
page of our website for a list of
sustainable paper companies. |
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One person uses and discards the equivalent
of two pine trees in paper products each year. One person can and does make a difference—recycling paper after it’s
been used will extend the life of our
valuable forests. |
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Oil-based ink is high in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that create smog and are known to cause cancer. Soy ink is naturally low in VOCs, and its usage reduces air pollution-causing emissions. Ask your local printer to use
only soy-based inks. |
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The use of oil-based ink perpetuates our dependence on foreign oil. The use of soy ink provides a market
for
a domestic crop and reduces our
dependency on foreign oil. |
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It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. Today there are tree-free papers available that are made out of sustainable resources such as kenaf, hemp and flax, and we offer all of them to you! |
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Photographic and motion picture film contains gelatin,
an animal-based ingredient. The use of digital photography and video is much less harmful to animals, which is one reason why we prefer using high-quality digital equipment. |
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Every year, the U.S. catalog industry mails over 19 billion catalogs and brochures, or 71 for every single American. We encourage catalogs, brochures and documents to be downloaded from websites or emailed, instead of printed and mailed; we can help you turn your documents into digital formats. |
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At least 30 different chemicals used in photo processing are considered hazardous and highly toxic. Our use of digital photography and video is much less harmful to the environment because we largely avoid using chemicals altogether.
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Shooting and processing motion picture film can be prohibitively expensive. Compared with film, digital videotape is hundreds of times less expensive than film, and there is virtually no processing involved, which allows us to stay within your budget.
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As much as 40% of landfill is made up of printing, copying and writing paper. By reusing and recycling all your office paper, we greatly minimize the impact
we make on the environment. Please encourage your organization to recycle
and reuse all of your office paper.
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