The Environment
Protecting the environment is super important to us at Words With Heart – few people realise just how serious of an impact the traditional paper and print industry has on native forests and the wildlife that call those places home.
Some Facts
%
of the commercially cut timber in Australia is estimated to be used for paper production.
%
of the wood logged in Victoria’s native forests ends up as pulp and paper.
Some of it comes from managed plantations, but too much of it comes from native, old-growth forests with high conservation value.
Worth of illegally logged wood and paper products are sold in Australia from places such as Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea every year. Two-thirds of Australia’s printing paper is imported from overseas.
The paper industry is the world’s 4th largest industrial user of energy and a significant emitter of greenhouse gases.
But
We use 100% post-consumer recycled paper for our notebook and journal pages, and 100% recycled card for our covers.
Our paper products are printed with vegetable-based inks and green electricity. It’s as eco-friendly as it gets.
Compared to a ton of virgin wood pulp paper, our pages use 63% less energy, 82% less solid waste, and 58% less water, and save 21 trees!