When it comes to merchandising, one of the most popular products is notebooks. But… what if we turned a regular merchandising notebook into an eco-friendly merchandising one? It would be as easy as replacing normal paper with recycled paper or cardboard. The environmental advantages of recycling cardboard and paper are very diverse.
Among the main benefits of paper recycling are:
- Energy savings: Making paper from recycled paper saves 70% of the energy that would be used if it were made from wood or virgin fibres.
- Reduction of trees cut down: For every tonne of recycled paper, the equivalent of 12 trees (4m3 of wood) is saved.
- Saving resources : By recycling, the paper-cardboard industry could be supplied with almost 69% of the resources it needs.
- Water savings: Recycling paper saves 80% of water compared to production from virgin material. Approximately 50,000 L of water are saved per recycled tonne.
- Improves air and water quality: Recycling paper results in a 74% reduction in gas emissions and a 35% reduction in water polluting emissions.
- Saving greenhouse gas emissions For every tonne of recycled paper , the emission of 900 kilos of carbon dioxide (CO2) is reduced .
- Waste is prevented from going to landfill or incinerator. For every tonne of paper collected and recycled, two cubic metres of landfill are saved.
If after seeing these environmental benefits you think that recycled paper is not of the same quality as first-use paper, you are very wrong. Or if you don't like its color, think that it is for a good cause.
Normally the notebooks we use in our eco-friendly merchandising are the typical beige colour. Why? Because chlorine has not been used to whiten them, so they are actually made from eco-friendly recycled paper.
There are many manufacturing options offered by this material in ecological merchandising, from writing sets to technological devices such as the following.
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