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Calculating your Paper Waste Reduction Impacts

Calculating your Paper Waste Reduction Impacts

by Kim Porter | Nov 16, 2022 | Reducing Consumption

The most impactful way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with society’s paper consumption is to reduce or eliminate wasteful and unnecessary instances of paper use. Many companies and organizations are working to reduce their paper waste in order to...
Pharmaceutical Prescribing Labels: An Enormous Opportunity to Eliminate Pointless Paper Waste in the United States

Pharmaceutical Prescribing Labels: An Enormous Opportunity to Eliminate Pointless Paper Waste in the United States

by Joshua Martin | Nov 9, 2021 | Reducing Consumption

A serious approach to addressing climate change must include the proactive elimination of unnecessary paper consumption. Paper is an important and useful material that should be produced and consumed in a responsible and sustainable way, and the existence of digital...
Got Accountability? The USDA’s Paper and Packaging Commodity Checkoff Program Continues to Operate in Secrecy

Got Accountability? The USDA’s Paper and Packaging Commodity Checkoff Program Continues to Operate in Secrecy

by Environmental Paper Network | Jul 21, 2021 | Reducing Consumption, Transparency and Integrity

The need to ensure transparency and oversight for government sponsored commodity marketing programs: The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act is a start. By Environmental Paper Network – North America (EPN-NA) Cue the snappy catch phrases and animated...
Pandemics, pets & packaging: Why paper reduction needs to be at the forefront of forest campaigners’ minds

Pandemics, pets & packaging: Why paper reduction needs to be at the forefront of forest campaigners’ minds

by Luisa Colasimone | Jun 16, 2021 | Reducing Consumption

Originally published on the website of Fern, an EPN member organisation on the Steering Committee of EPN-International I would have never imagined that a pandemic would reveal the difficulties of reconciling my love of pets with my love for forests. As the happy...

Earth Day, Ditching Disposables, and “The Guy Who Decides Packaging”

by Anne Pernick | Apr 22, 2021 | Reducing Consumption

The packaging crisis is really serious. The Guy Who Decides Packaging videos are not. Both show we need major change The Environmental Paper Network’s new resource for decision-makers, SolvingPackaging.org, lays out the reasons we need to solve the packaging...
Can certification save the world’s last remaining forests?

Can certification save the world’s last remaining forests?

by Sergio Baffoni | Mar 18, 2021 | Maximise Recycled, Reducing Consumption, Social Responsibilty, Uncategorized

In the lead up to the International Day of Forests on 21st March, a new Greenpeace study goes beyond the discussion of specific failures and weaknesses of individual certification schemes, and raises the question of whether certification is still a useful tool in its...
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The new #EUPackaging and Packaging Waste Regulation could be a game changer, but industry is lobbying hard to weaken targets.

Read @lindsayduff’s piece in the latest #ForestWatch: https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/the-eu-packaging-and-waste-regulation-a-strong-idea-which-industry-is-already-watering-down-2624

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