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Please pledge to use less paper. Since the 1960s, world consumption of paper has quadrupled and use of printing paper has increased six-fold. Half of the trees cut commercially around the world end up in paper products. Yet much of this paper use is wasteful and unnecessary and it is linked to human rights abuses, forest destruction, pollution and climate change emissions.

Paper use has increased most in the computer age despite technological advances like electronic communication, which should offer good alternatives.

Just 10% of the world's population (western Europe and north America) consumes more than 50% of the world’s paper. Europeans and Americans use 6 times as much paper as the world average.

Lots of paper is thrust upon us by companies without us asking for it: just think of junk mail and packaging. We are challenging big corporate paper users to follow your example by matching or exceeding the paper reductions of the pledges made on this website. So by pledging to use less paper you will not only reduce your own impact directly, you will help us lobby the biggest paper wasters in our society to reduce their paper use as well.

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