Tips and Tools

Paper Saving Tips

WWFs guide to saving paper.
Paper saving tips for the office.
Great tips, including how to measure paper use.

Business Guides

The Environmental Paper Network has a fact sheet on efficient paper use.
This business guide to reducing paper consumption (PDF) includes fascinating case studies of how much money can be saved.

Tools and Miscellaneous

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.

Signing Off Junk Mail

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

• Australia: Australian Direct Marketing Association
• Canada: www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BizWaste/OfficePaper/MailReduce.htm
• UK: www.mpsonline.org.uk
• www.stopjunkmail.org.uk
• USA: www.catalogchoice.org
• www.dmachoice.org/cgi/offmailinglist
• www.stopjunk.com
• www.41pounds.com
• www.greendimes.com

Information about Paper and its impacts

• 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!

Shrink around the World

So far, 1920 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.