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Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber-rich panda excrement into high quality paper. Liao Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Sichuan province, said the idea came to them after a visit to Thailand. They thought panda poop would produce a fine quality paper, he said. The center's 40 bamboo-fed pandas produce about 2 tons of droppings a day.

Journal made from recycled cotton rags and environmentally friendly dyes.

Environmentalists have railed against Australian mobile carriers for sending iPhone bills to customers that, depending on the plan, could contain more than 100 pages of non-recycled paper.

What are the main issues and concerns involved in paper production, consumption, and recycling. Although I'm not an expert, I try to quickly go through the points from a life cycle perspective, and include a video from a nonprofit org

Saving paper = Saving trees = Saving money. Sainsbury’s with its new double-sided receipts (using the new NCR two-sided printers which use over 40 percent less paper) and Citibank's paperless statements initiative ("enroll in Paperless Statements today and Citi will plant a tree on your behalf") prove it once again.

Eco-Libris green books series present you this week a with a book that is a fascinating journey to the heart of global paper industry. 'Paper Trails' by Mandy Haggith is connecting the dots between the paper in your printer and the destruction of forests all over the world.

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has said the UK has increased recovered paper collection to "well above" the European average.

Excel, a French direct marketing agency of TBWA group, launched a green direct marketing initiative called 'Le Mailing Vert'. The idea is to provide its customers, many of whom are non-profits, with a greener offer that will enable them to have direct marketing campaigns, promoting their causes, while having as little environmental impact as possible.

Did you know that the average American consumes more than 700lbs of paper every year? If everyone reduced their paper consumption by 10%, it would be like taking 280,000 cars off the road.

USPayMail.com, a street address based online mailing community, with aims of eliminating the waste of the postal service, and spam associated with email.  Sign up free at www.USPayMail.com to help create change! 

Think about the last time you hit up the drive-thru. How many napkins were you given? My guess is that you received none or you received a dozen. You likely used one, maybe two. The other ten got tossed. Along with the straw, straw wrapper, sandwich wrapper, receipt, salt packets, paper soft-drink cup, bag, and ketchup packets (both used and excess). That's one transaction. One meal. One person. Extrapolate that.  

Americans receive about 26 billion bills and 9 billion paper statements in their mailbox each year. That equals…

755 million lbs of paper! 9 million trees! 512 million gallons of gas to deliver them! 19.6 BILLION lbs of greenhouse gas emissions!

Shorewood Packaging, a division of International Paper (IP) is making some exciting new strides in the area of sustainable packaging for CD and DVD consumer media products. 

Ever wondered how much energy and thought it took to produce that shiny brochure your marketing staff handed to you this week? And no, it’s not just the brand and visual design genius we’re talking about.

We all forget our reusable shopping totes from time to time. Instead of putting yourself on a green guilt trip, pick paper over plastic (ask your friends and relatives to also!), and upcycle those bags into some not-so-shiny seed packet business cards.