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Buying recycled paper is one of the easiest ways to lighten your impact on the environment. Replacing virgin paper with recycled saves natural resources, energy and landfill space. It reduces pollution and carbon emissions. Plus it creates jobs and saves municipal budgets.
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- Every year enough paper is thrown away to make a 12' wall from New York to California.
- US paper users consumer about one billion trees per year to make over 85,000 tons of paper.
- Recycling a ton of paper saves 17 trees and 7000 gallons of water (EPA)
- Recycled paper saves 60% energy vs. virgin paper (Center for Ecological Technology)
- Recycled paper generates 95% less air pollution: each ton saves 60 lbs. of air pollution (Center for Ecological Technology)
- Recycling paper keeps it out of our landfills. Paper in landfills emit methane gas, a powerful greenhouse gas -20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
- The recycling process creates more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.
- If everyone in the US reduced their virgin paper consumption by just 10% through the use of 100% post consumer recycled paper we would save about 200 million tree (www.conserveatree.org) and 34 billion kwh of energy and almost 60 billion gallons of water. It would also avoid releasing 500 million lbs of pollutants into the air. (Californians Against Waste, www.cawrecycles.org)
- Recycle everything you possibly can
- Clip used envelops together to make shopping and to-do lists.
- Log on to catalogchoice.org, a free service to opt out of catalogs
- greendimes.com provides a service which helps get rid of junk mail
- Use the back-sides of paper for your kid’s art work.
- Always print doubled-sided.
- Look for products with minimal packaging. It is estimated that packaging materials makes up 1/3 of America’s landfill.
- Buy in bulk instead of single-use containers. (Saves money too.)
