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Environmentally Friendly Print Management
Reduce your carbon footprint and save money!
Trade Print Management offers your company a unique combination of cost effective and eco friendly print management services, enabling you to reduce your carbon footprint on the print you purchase,and save money. All this with the convenient benefits of having your print requirement handled by one trusted provider.
Our in-house team deliver first-class print management service whilst ensuring that your forms are printed in the most eco friendly way. This service is underpinned by our administration team's wealth of experience in the printing industry.
The most obvious benefit of our eco friendly print management service is cost control. Our storage and call-off system will save you money and ensure that you never run out of any essential documents.
Just call our Sales Team on 0845 367 0240 for more information, or to take advantage of our Free Print Audit.
Recycled Paper - Why we should use it?
Every time you use a sheet of recycled paper you are making a positive contribution to the environment; but maybe not in the way that you think!
Even considering that the basic raw material used for the manufacture of paper is predominantly trees, it would be incorrect to assume that by using and recycling waste paper you are directly saving trees in the rain forest, as most trees used to make paper are grown commercially in managed plantations. In these "sustainable" forests more trees are planted to replace those cut down, and paper is also only made from the parts of the tree that can not generally be used in other industries such as furniture making.
So, there are other important environmental reasons for using recycled paper!
The manufacture of recycled paper uses considerably less energy and water than the pulping process used to turn virgin wood into paper. There other benefits too, such as fewer air polluting emissions as recycled paper is not usually bleached using chlorine, which reduces the dioxins released into the environment.
Paper and card accounts for a large proportion of waste collected for recycling, with over 1 million tonnes collected annually in England alone. This means that any paper waste that is collected and recycled ends up in landfill or goes for incineration. Paper is biodegradable, so this means that when it goes to landfill it rots and produces methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas which is 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide. Using recycled waste paper to produce new paper means that disposal problems and landfill needs are substantially reduced.
Our Tree Planting Policy
TradePrintManagement are making every effort to ensure your print has the smallest possible carbon footprint. So, for every 8,000 sheets of paper our customers purchase from us we will plant two trees with www.SponsorTrees.co.uk!
One average tree makes around 8,000 sheets of A4 paper.
When our MD asked me to find out how many sheets of A4 paper could be made from one tree I thought it would be easy. I thought well, your average tree probably weighs several tonnes?, so would probably make a shed load of paper. But as I researched the question further I discovered just how wrong I was.
Not only is 95% of paper content derived from trees; but just 0-50% of the tree is suitable for paper making. That was easy to discover using the internet and all; but the answer my MD wanted, and indeed why he wanted it answered was still eluding me.
But then I got lucky and found that someone had already made a great effort to answer this question. Conservatree have dealt with this question in what seems to me an honest and common sense way and come up with the answer 8,333. Please read their full report "How much paper can be made from a tree?http://www.conservatree.com/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml.
So I gave my MD this answer "One average tree makes around 8,000 sheets of 80gsm A4 paper" and he seemed happy, especially when I gave him some extra reading...
Additional reading: There is no confirmed research showing the carbon footprint of paper as of yet but The Confederation of European Industries are working on it,but calculations may not be available for some time. They have produced an interesting report explaining the framework for the calculations, if you have time to skim through you'll see how complicated a process it is. Framework for the development of Carbon Footprints for paper and board productsby the Confederation of European Paper Industries:
But why did my MD want to know? Well it's simple really, he wants to ensure that Trade Print Management are making every effort to ensure it's customers print has the smallest possible carbon footprint. So, for every 8,000 sheets of paper our customers purchase from we will plant two trees with www.SponsorTrees.co.uk
Dave Owen - Sales Director