Tips for selecting, buying and reducing paper
Paper Task Force report, by section and chapter
Posted: 19-Dec-1995; Updated: 27-Jan-2010
A new way to buy paper [PDF]: The lifecycle approach to reducing the environmental impacts of paper use (2 pages - 150 Kb)
Our recommendations for purchasing and using environmentally preferable paper [PDF] (20 pages - 240 Kb)
Table of Contents: Listings of Task Force Members, and Acknowledgements (85 Kb)
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage for Purchasing Environmentally Preferable Paper (500 Kb)
Chapter 2: Source Reduction (225 Kb)
Chapter 3: Buying and Recycling Recycled Paper (1.1 Mb)
- February 2002 update and corrections to Chapter 3, Figures 2, 6-9 (73 Kb)
- February 2002 update and corrections to Chapter 3, Tables A-1 to A-5 (155 Kb MS Excel file)
Chapter 4: Forest Management (940 Kb)
Chapter 5: Pulp and Paper Manufacturing (1.1 Mb)
Biographies of the Task Force members and a Glossary (335 Kb)
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