American Recycled Paper: Made in China

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Permalink Reply by Lena Lucas on November 21, 2008 at 8:24pm

You bring up a good point of recycling the paper. I also would add that we need to use less paper period. A lot of paper waste is happening in the work environment.

The real question is (like in that car commercial:)) is how do we use less paper. There are number of things you can do, from basics such as reuse everything that can be reused (print on 2 sides of the documents; use old document as scratch paper) to more involved decisions - contact the companies that send you more than one copy of catalogs, etc., to ask them to send you only one and pass it on; Packaging: make a point to purchase goods that use minimal packaging etc

I think we need to help business people to put together an action plan on how they can green up their businesses to reduce waste and save money and DO Something Good. I have vast resources of best practices on making office greener and can share it free with willing listeners.

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Permalink Reply by Lena Lucas on November 21, 2008 at 8:25pm

Forgot the photo.

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