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A few environmental facts

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“According to Friends of the Earth, just one tonne of recycled paper saves approximately six mature trees and 3.3 yards of rapidly diminishing landfill space.”

“Recycled paper is the greenest option overall – it uses up waste paper and its production requires less energy and fewer chemicals. Plus, it provides a market for paper waste in the UK and encourages more recycling.”

“Of 12,000 or more printing companies in the UK, less than 50 have taken voluntary steps to reduce their environmental impact over and above the legal requirements.”

“In the government’s Envirowise Attitudes 2000 survey, print came bottom of the list in terms of the number of firms which had adopted environmental policies.”

“Print is now the UK’s fifth-largest manufacturing industry, and is classified by global risk management company Det Norske Veritas in the same environmental risk category as the mining, oil and nuclear power industries.”

(All the above quotes have been taken from www.lovelyasatree.com, an indespinsible designer’s guide to greener working practises.)

Cute fact - Squirrels help plant trees - millions of trees are accidently planted by Squirrels when Squirrels forget about where they buried their acorns after waking up from hibernation. 

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