FSC-Certified Paper Comes to Staples Canada
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 11. 3.06
Try as we might, paper is one thing that's tough to rid from our lives. Bills, notes, shopping lists, receipts; the list goes on, and though paperless options for bank statements and the like are becoming more prevalent (and you can get wind-powered paper now), FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Canada reports that global paper consumption has more than tripled over the past three decades, and is expected to increase by another 50 per cent by 2010. In light of consumer's continued hunger for paper consumption, Staples/Bureau en Gros and Domtar Inc. have partnered to offer EarthChoice papers, the first environmentally-friendly papers to be certified by the FSC. To attain FSC certification, 10 criteria must be met, including elements like environmental impact, indigenous people’s rights, community relations, monitoring, and independent third-party verification. There are six EarthChoice papers in the line, ranging from multipurpose, everyday paper, to photo paper; they come from Domtar's 17-million acres of forestland in Canada and the US, making them the third-largest producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America. The paper is available now at Staples Canada. ::EarthChoice via linton at ::Hugg
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I doubt that per capita North American paper consumption has been steadily rising through the present. Email and the fall off of newsprint subscriptions account for the losses. Something else is going on here:how else do you account for the reduction in US paper making capacities and selloffs of operations?
JL, it says "global", not US. Blame a growing economy.
But the PC and desktop printers represent a huge change in people's habits. People in offices print off all kinds of crap, like their emails. And I print a lot of stuff off at home that I don't really need--stuff I find on the internet that I want to read, and would rather do it off a sheet of paper than the screen. That probably happens a lot, and it's a completely new use of paper.
Also, there's way more junk mail, leaflets and (probably) newspaper inserts than therre used to be.
I agree, but JL didn't state anything about US consumption, he stated North American (NA) consumption. There is more than 1 country in NA, there is 3. Canada, and Mexico are part of it too.