by Anne Pernick | Nov 27, 2019 | EPN-North America, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Reducing Consumption, Social Responsibilty
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash Heading into the year-end holidays our list of to-do’s may include some gift-giving, some special cooking, and a lot of trying to save the world with our individual choices to cut consumption and avoid throwaway products and packaging....
by Joshua Martin | Oct 29, 2019 | Reducing Consumption
From 2017-2019, Root Solutions trained more than 20 higher education institutions in how to use behavioral insights to save paper. The behavioral sciences – including research from the fields of cognitive science, conservation psychology, behavioral economics,...
by Joshua Martin | Oct 10, 2019 | Reducing Consumption
I don’t know if you’re like me…I love holding and reading a good paperback book, and then passing it on to a friend. All of us probably appreciate other high value uses of paper too, for art, education, sanitation and more. But having walked through...
by Joshua Martin | Jul 16, 2019 | EPN-North America, Maximise Recycled, Reducing Consumption, Transparency and Integrity
As the owner and manager of the Paper Calculator, the Environmental Paper Network would like to take this opportunity to address recent communications from paper industry-related groups that include misleading and inaccurate information regarding the Paper Calculator....
by Joshua Martin | Jul 8, 2019 | Reducing Consumption
Last year, Bank of America set out to follow a scientific method and seek independent review of a life cycle assessment study to calculate the comparative carbon emissions and water consumption impacts of digital statements compared to paper statements. The results of...
by Peter Gerhardt | Apr 16, 2019 | Reducing Consumption
Paper packaging is the main driver of the persistently high paper consumption in Germany, and around the world. The majority is used to support the booming online retail sector. In 2017, for example, almost half of German paper consumption was for packaging (9.9...
