Environmental Paper Network Press Releases
September 7, 2011
RePaper Campus Challenge Spurs Colleges and Universities to Reach 75% Paper Recovery Rate by 2015
Campuses Dig Deeper to Improve Paper Recycling
With the start of a new school year, a growing coalition of sustainability and recycling organizations is engaging with North American campuses to help them boost recycling by tracking and improving their paper recovery rates. From text books to blue books, paper is essential to successful campus recycling programs. Yet while paper recycling rates have slowly increased over the years, they are not keeping up with demand from manufacturers who need recovered paper to produce new, recycled-content stocks. With over 50% of paper still being thrown away on college campuses, there is a need to dig deeper and find those valuable sources of paper.
"Fall means getting back to the books, but for many students it also means finding new ways to help green their campus," states Pam Blackledge......
August 4th, 2011
Environmental Paper Network Applauds Senate Resolution Calling for Improved Recycling
Senate Resolution 251 Showcases Benefits of Recycling
Senate Resolution 251 was introduced on August 2nd by Recycling Caucus co-chairs Senator Carper (D-DE) and Olympia Snowe (R–ME). The intent behind the non-binding resolution was to showcase the high level benefits that recycling provides the US economy, jobs, and the environment. At the same time, the bill calls for needed improvement to the current collection, processing, manufacturing and consuming of recyclables and recycled materials.....
July 14, 2011
Conservation Groups Release Updated Sustainability Indicators for Paper Industry
Conservation achievements and industry leadership of past decade highlighted; further progress critical to solve deforestation and climate change.
Asheville, NC - Today a coalition of leading conservation organizations released a comprehensive sustainability report tracking progress on key pulp and paper industry indicators over the previous decade. The report, titled The State of the Paper Industry 2011: Steps Toward an Environmental Vision, provides data and analysis about fiber sourcing, recycling, consumption, paper production, and the paper industry's impact on communities and the climate crisis......
May 24, 2011
Environmental Paper Network’s RePaper Project
Campus Organizations Launch Campaign
to Recover 75% of Paper Waste for Recycling by 2015
Boise, ID - This past Earth Day, campuses across North America were called to take part in the RePaper Campus Challenge – a movement to increase sustainability on college campuses by recovering 75% of campus paper waste for recycling by the year 2015. The campaign is headquartered in the not-for-profit organization Environmental Paper Network’s RePaper Project – a program focusing on increasing paper recovery to best maximize recycled content in paper manufacturing. The Campus Challenge will teach students, faculty and staff on higher education campuses about the impacts of paper, and how best to recover it for effective recycling.....
April 20, 2011
Paper Calculator Relaunched in Time for Earth Day Focus on Green Choices
Environmental Paper Network takes the reins from Environmental Defense Fund
Asheville, NC - The Paper Calculator is the most trusted, independent tool available to paper purchasers to measure and report the environmental benefits and savings of choosing environmentally superior paper. Today, version 3.0 of the Paper Calculator was launched and ownership and management was transferred to the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) from its original developer and host, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The tool is built on the original life-cycle research of the Paper Task Force, which included EDF, the US EPA, McDonald’s and others, and receives ongoing guidance and life cycle data from environmental consulting firm, Franklin Associates, a division of ERG......
April 4, 2011
U.S. EPA Advertises Key Hearing on Climate Pollution With One Day Notice
Obama Administration seeks a 3-year deferral for permitting greenhouse gas pollution from bioenergy and other biogenic sources
Asheville, - The Obama Adminstration distributed details to the public only one day in advance of a key public hearing Tuesday on its proposed three-year loophole in regulating climate pollution from bioenergy under the Clean Air Act. The topic of the hearing to be held in Washington, D.C. is the Administration’s proposal to delay the EPA’s responsibility to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from bioenergy and other biogenic sources. The Environmental Paper Network previously issued a statement raising concerns about the long-term forest and climate impacts of a three-year deferral, and the importance of a science-driven process to navigate the special interests and the politically charged debate......
March 29, 2011
U.S. Paper Industry Responds to Calls for Greater Responsibility,
Sets New Goals
2020 Goals Are a Good Step, But Are They Enough?
Asheville, NC – Today,the trade association for the U.S. forest and paper industry announced a set of environmental and safety related goals for its members called, Better Practices, Better Planet 2020. The Environmental Paper Network (EPN) applauds the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) for recognizing an urgent need for reducing its environmental impact and for responding to the calls for industry transformation from conservation organizations and economic trends in the marketplace. However, as a whole, the goals announced today are incomplete and the process to achieve them remains unclear......
February 16, 2011
Environmental Paper Network’s RePaper Project
Announces New Sponsorship Program
Limited Brands Foundation and Boise, Inc Help Build Paper Recycling Partnerships
The RePaper Project announced today that Limited Brands Foundation and Boise, Inc are providing financial support for the RePaper Project’s mission to increase waste paper recovery for recycling in North America.
Investments by Limited Brands Foundation and Boise are supporting a new, more sustainable marketplace of paper choices and will greatly enhance the RePaper Project’s work to develop strategic and diverse partnerships that will increase awareness and education around the needs of paper recycling. “We created our new sponsorship program in the fall of 2010 to help diversify and expand our funding sources,” stated Pam Blackledge, coordinator of the RePaper Project. “Boise and Limited are two companies that we are extremely pleased to have supporting our mission. I look forward to the months ahead building collaborative recycling partnerships through their generous support”......
