Manufacturing 26 sheets of A4-size paper emits the same amount of greenhouse gas as driving a car one kilometre.
Source: Clean Up Australia
One tree is used to produce 100 copies of an average (83 page) annual report.
Source: Chartered Secretaries Australia
More water is consumed to produce one tonne of paper than any other commodity.
One litre of water is used to produce seven sheets of A4-size paper.
It takes 13.5 Gj of energy to produce one tonne of paper – this is equivalent to using 552 litres of heavy crude oil.
Tony Heywood is a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia, founder of Heywood Innovation in Sydney Australia and joint founder of BrandSynergy in Singapore.
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