The new What’sInYourPaper website and campaign, is designed to raise public awareness about responsible paper options. The campaign is hoping to motivate institutions, offices, companies, and universities across North America to adopt responsible paper purchasing policies. The website explains the impact of paper choices’ impact on forests, water resources and greenhouse gases.
What’sInYourPaper campaign reports that paper is the single largest component of our landfills, where its decomposition emits methane, a gas with 23 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide. In its production, paper ranks fourth among all United States manufacturing industries in greenhouse gas emissions. The paper industry is the third largest industrial energy consumer worldwide.
Pulp and paper is one of the most significant industrial drivers of unsustainable forestry and the loss of endangered forests in places like the ancient, wild Canadian Boreal Forest, the amazingly diverse forests of the Southern United States, tropical rainforests in Indonesia, and elsewhere. More than one-third of the trees cut in the United States end up as paper.
The United States is the largest consumer of paper per capita in the world. If the United States cut office paper use by just 10% it would prevent the release of 1.6 million tons of greenhouse gases — the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road according to The State of the Paper Industry, published by American paper watchdog group The Environmental Paper Network.
Visit: http://What’sInYourPaper.com
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