Easy Way to Do Your Bit to Save the Planet…
I generally save my ‘shout out’ posts for specific, excellent stuff and this is certainly one of them.
These Come From Trees is a really simple, but incredibly effective ‘ guerrilla public service announcement’ which is doing great things for our environment.
The concept is simple: when people are reminded about their ability to act responsibly, they usually do. So tapping into this, These Come From Trees sell packs of the sticker (over there to your right) which you can then use to stick in the right place (see their flickr for examples).
So how can this help? Well, if you look at the stats on their site you can see the magnitude of the problem and the TCFT crew believe that ‘each sticker deployed saves about a tree’s worth of paper (~100 lbs.) a year’.
Quick Facts about “These Come From Trees”
- Testing shows a “These Come From Trees” sticker on a paper towel dispenser reduces paper towel consumption by ~15%
- A typical fast food restaurant with two bathrooms can use up to 2000 pounds of paper towels a year
- The average coffee shop uses 1000 pounds of paper towels a year
- A single tree produces around 100 pounds of paper
- A single “These Come From Trees” sticker can save around a tree’s worth of paper, every year
Roughly 50,000 fast food restaurants in the US- 200,00 gas stations in the US
- 14,000 McDonalds’ in the US
- There are 10,000 Starbucks in the US
So why not buy some and/or talk to your bosses about buying some for the building you work in?
If it is so clearly known how much paper and therefore trees all these commercial outfits use up- how about a Tree tax- where they re-plant what they have used as their contribution to re-balancing? AFter all, their profit margins are large enough to accomplish. Meanwhile each and everyone can focus on their own conscious use of tree-pulp.