Speech Transcript:

This is the second video from The Odee Company on green printing. We’re gonna talk about paper: both Recycling and Certification.

As most of us know, printing is an actual intensive user of paper products. Basically that’s all we use to print income. There are several ways on which we can reduce the amount of paper that we use, or reduce the amount of actual trees that are destroyed to make the paper.

One such way is just like what you see here, where we can actually recycle our paper waste from our manufacturing process. This is a stitching unit and all of the excess paper waste is recycled in this unit and then set off to be made into new paper.

New paper is basically defined as that, as that would be the recycled paper. Recycled paper is paper that’s going to have post consumer waste or PCW in the actual making of that sheet of paper. Some of what you’ll see is going to be a percentage of PCW, certain sheets have 30%, certain sheets have an actual 100%.

Many years ago, recycled paper, if you used it in printers, there was really difficult to use as far as the quality of the paper.

Things have progressed and the industry has gotten better and the recycled paper is absolutely just as good as a virgin paper, virgin fiber type of thing.

The most important step in reducing the amount of paper is the recycling of paper waste. You can also use recycled paper, that’s the other step. And one of the most important things that have come about in the last couple of years is becoming certified to using recycled paper. There a couple of organizations in the US that we are actually becoming certified on. One is FSC which is the Forest Stewardship Council and the other one is the SFI which is the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

Those two organizations basically give you a chain of custody that you can use to prove that you use recyclable paper in your printing product. It goes from not only recycling of the fiber but it also goes from actually using certified forest to where they can take that pulp to a manufacturer. The manufacturer that’s going to make the paper uses that particular pulp for that particular paper product. That exact paper is then shipped to a certified printer. The printer uses only that paper to produce your product, and then ships it to you. By way of doing that you’re gonna have the chain of custody that your paper is actually being used from that initial certified forest.

These two organizations support the reforestation, reduction of water pollution and the destruction of forest habitat, as well as the displacement of tribes or indigenous people that are living in the forest area.

That’s basically it on the Paper Certification and Paper Recycling. This is The Odee Company. You can find us in the internet at www.odeecompany.com.

Thank you.

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See Also:

- Green Printing - Carbon Neutral
- Green Printing - Energy Consumption Renewable Energy