The Paper Calculator is based on research done by the Paper Task Force, a peer-reviewed study of the lifecycle environmental impacts of paper production and disposal. The underlying data are updated regularly.
Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Paper Network Paper Calculator. For more information visit www.papercalculator.org.
Type of paper based on degree of porosity, reflectivity, stiffness, opacity, smoothness, and gloss. Some of the most common grades of paper are free sheet (copy paper), groundwood (newspaper), supercalendered (newspaper inserts), corrugated, and paperboard.
The percentage of POST- consumer recycled fiber used in your paper. See entries in our glossary section on postconsumer fiber and preconsumer fiber.
Hemlock Printers has been named “Canada’s Most Environmental Printer” for the past six years. Hemlock uses the Paper Calculator to conduct eco-audits for their customers and for calculations for every Zero project they print.
"The Paper Calculator has been an instrumental tool at Starbucks, providing us with a consistent, verified, third-party lifecycle assessment of the impacts of our paper buying practices.
"When we introduced the country's first ever post-consumer fiber paper hot cup, our use of the Paper Calculator provided Starbucks with the ability to make valid claims around the environmental benefits of that investment.
"Since then, the Paper Calculator has become our standard tool for vetting the attributes of our sustainability claims around paper procurement."
Jim Hanna, Director of Environmental Affairs
Starbucks Coffee Company
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