Reduce Global Paper Consumption
and Promote Fair Access to Paper
- Encourage high utility, low volume paper use and find ways for people currently below the paper poverty line to share the benefits paper can bring.
- Develop and promote creative and innovative systems, designs and technologies that reduce the consumption of fibre and maximise efficiency.
- Proactively work with consumers to educate them to eliminate unnecessary paper consumption.
- Explore alternatives to paper, but understand and avoid negative impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions, from plastic, digital, and other alternatives.
Relevant Reports
News and Resources Related to Reducing Consumption
Pharmaceutical Prescribing Labels: An Enormous Opportunity to Eliminate Pointless Paper Waste in the United States
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...
#Jobs: EPN-North America seeks candidates for Reducing Consumption Coordinator position
Reducing Consumption Coordinator The Environmental Paper Network-North America is seeking a candidate to join our network team and help shape the future of paper consumption in North America and beyond. The Reducing Consumption Coordinator will lead our “Paper Use...
Got Accountability? The USDA’s Paper and Packaging Commodity Checkoff Program Continues to Operate in Secrecy
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 characters...
Pandemics, pets & packaging: Why paper reduction needs to be at the forefront of forest campaigners’ minds
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”
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 crisis...
Can certification save the world’s last remaining forests?
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...
Featured Member: Canopy
Canopy works with the forest industry’s biggest customers and their suppliers to develop business solutions that protect the world’s Ancient and Endangered Forests. The not-for-profit is a founding member of the Environmental Paper Network. EPN reached out to Lee-Ann...
In the midst of the packaging crisis, EPN launched SolvingPackaging.org to accelerate real solutions
Two years ago now, though it seems much longer than that, I traveled from the USA to Germany for a sustainable packaging conference organized by denkhausbremen and Environmental Paper Network - International. Over 60 people joined me, mostly from across Europe and the...
188 groups say it’s time to ‘make the throw-away go away’
Before the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of the products we produced and consumed were built to last. Milk bottles made of glass were returned and sterilized for re-use, restaurants offered ceramic plates and stainless-steel cutlery and the plastic bag was yet to be...
EPN and Leading Experts Launch SolvingPackaging.org to Accelerate the Shift to Sustainable Packaging
Asheville, NC - The Environmental Paper Network-North America launched SolvingPackaging.org today to accelerate the solutions to the packaging crisis. SolvingPackaging.org brings together the expertise of leading conservation, zero waste and public health...
It’s Time for Companies and Lawmakers to Act on the Packaging Crisis
Shortly after the road turned to dirt, a sign greeted us, painted in the timeless yellow and brown style of so many erected by the U.S. Forest Service throughout the national forest system. “First Tract of National Forest,” it announced. It’s a woods I know well, full...
Featured Member: Forum Ökologie Papier (FÖP)
Forum Ökologie Papier (FÖP) is based in Germany and a proud member of the Environmental Paper Network (EPN). This non-governmental organisation (NGO) is an association of paper experts which are committed to achieve a significant reduction in paper consumption. EPN...