And the Impact We Have

Addressing the Madness!

Effective Techniques, Links and Resources

Make a Donation towards Fairer Paper Use

Paper Saving Forum

How Companies Can Save Paper and Money

how governments can end paper waste

Tips and Tools

Useful links and resources

WWFs guide to saving paper.
Paper saving tips for the office.
Great tips, including how to measure paper use.
A range of resources on how to reduce waste, including paper waste.
Instructions about how to reduce margins, and the campaign to persuade software companies to change the defaults.

The Environmental Paper Network has a fact sheet on efficient paper use and the 'What's in your paper?' guide to paper saving has lots of links and tips.
This business guide to reducing paper consumption (PDF) includes fascinating case studies of how much money can be saved.
Envirowise Guide to Eco-design for Packaging and their Green Officiency Toolkit.

You can order stickers for napkin dispensers that say These Come From Trees, each sticker saves a tree’s worth of paper in a year.
The environmental benefits of using less paper can be calculated with Environmental Defense's paper calculator.
Greenprint is saving a million trees through smart printing.
Treehugger's top 5 software tools to save paper
Collaborative Systems Group puts forms online.
Shoeboxx does paper-free receipts.
Paper Shrink (no relation!) digitises archives, so you can turn all those filing cabinets into a shelf of CDs.

There are lots of websites for helping you to sign off junk mail. Here are just some:

And with the the junk mail we can't stop, perhaps we should make art!

The Paper Calculator is the basis of many of the statistics on this website, created by the Environmental Defense Fund.
Envirostat statistics about paper
Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper, a new book about paper by Mandy Haggith, is published by Virgin Books. There is a video trailer for the book here.
The secret life of paper - video from Inform and a chance to make another pledge!
A report on the climate change impacts of paper: Climate Neutral Paper: Fact or Fiction?

So far, 15,554 Shrink pledges have been made on the following websites of organisations in our network.
WWF China has a paper reduction pledge site. So does WWF France, as part of L'appel de la foret. There's also a Panda Passport Action by WWF International.
Robin Wood's paper pages include links to a paper saving initiative by German NGOs.
There is more encouragement to use less paper at shrink nag.