The print industry can often get a bad press with regards the environment but in reality it is very ethical, a campaign has been set up to try and redress the balance called Two Sides, a few quick facts are that for every tree logged in managed forests three to four trees are replanted and as young trees grow, they absorb Co2 from the atmosphere, as a wood product paper continues to store carbon through it's lifetime.
As industries go paper making is a large scale undertaking and you would expect it to generate some pretty frightening statistics, it doesn't, on average it takes 500 kilowatt hours of energy to produce 200kg of paper this being the average amount of paper each of us consume per year, 500 kilowatt hours is like powering a computer continuously for 5 months or burning a lightbulb for 1 year, it is also what a typical household leaving its electronic equipment on stand-by for 1 year might consume.
Jonathan Porrit Chairman of UK Sustainability Development commented 'There aren't many industries around that can aspire to becoming genuinely sustainable. The paper industry, however, is one of them; it is inherently sustainable'. Visit www.twosides.info
