shrinkpaper.org - 11/17/2008
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Welcome Please pledge to use less paper. Since the 1960s, world consumption of paper has quadrupled and use of printing paper has increased six-fold. Half of the trees cut commercially around the world end up in paper products. Yet much of this paper use is wasteful and unnecessary and it is ...
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Tony Juniper: Paper is more carbon-intensive than even global aviation.
Guardian.co.uk —
... is useful site help you reduce the amount of junk mail you receive, if you'd like to reduce your own paper footprint. If there is to any chance for the sustainable management of natural resources, at the same time as providing all the world's people with their needs, then the developed world needs to lead by example in ensuring that more equitable patterns of consumption emerge. One campaign that is dealing head-on with the issue is Shrink . This coalition is asking individuals to consume less paper and is inviting pledges from British industry to set targets to reduce their ...
Mind what you print: The planet pays a heavy price for paper
GreenPacks.org —
... In the wake of UK formation of organizations such as Shrink which are asking people to reduce their paper consumption by 50% in UK and French supremo Sarkozy following the path, it only is fair that the entire planet takes up the cause as well. ...
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