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I am trying to find out how "green" SU!'s products are. I have a project to do for a day care that received a grant to "green" up their space. I am to do a scrapbook to document what was done, and it needs products that are greener. I would like to know the percentage of recycled material goes into the card stock, also anything I can find about ink, embellishments, ribbons, etc. I have tried a search, but there are so many green ideas that do not relate to SU! and I don't really have all day to look up this stuff.
There was an article in our demo magazine about this recently (Jan 2009). I will try to summarize:
1. Excess rubber donated to Courage Reins. They sell it to groups for playground and horse stable use.
2. Wood Blocks are renewable, and sustainable. They work with a tree farm specifically for this.
3. Cardstock - Includes recycled paper left from other runs. Use a paper broker who is certified through the SFI, FSC and the PEFC to use sustainable and environmentally friendly practices and lesson carbon footprint. One mill even generates its own power.
4. Buildings - facilities built to reduce environmental impact. Any possible pollutants from stamp production are filtered. Geothermal wells to cut down on use of oil,gas. All lights on sensors and timers. Native water-wise plants in landscaping. Wildflowers instead of grass in front of home office. Sprinkler system that reduces water use. Indoor gardens include artificial and live plants to minimize water use.
5. Carbon Footprint - strive hard to reduce. Eg. shipping practices - UPS pickups are during nonpeak traffic hours to reduce gas usage. They "carpool" shipments from the Kanab building where the stamps are manufactured to Salt Lake City. Eg. - Sysco delivers food to Kanab and instead of driving empty trucks back, they bring stamps.
Thanks, Kim, you saved me some time! Two friends and I sell our cards together, and the other day they stopped by a boutique shop that specializes in "green" products. They found out that the owner was interested in marketing another line of handcrafted cards, and so I as the lone demo in our little trio have been tasked with researching and creating a little write-up on the environmental friendliness of the products we use in our cards. I remember that article in Stampin' Success and now I don't have to go track it down! :mrgreen:
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To the Original Poster (zuziqu) if the info given earlier was not enough, you could probably email directly to Stampin' Up from their website and ask for a copy of the article for your research, since it came out in a demo magazine.
Many of SU!'s cardstock colors do contained recycled paper. I believe when this subject came up once on the SU! demonstrators' discussion site, we were told that we (as demonstrators) can find out about the percentage of recycled content in the various cardstock colors by looking it up in the product description guide. It's not something you want to print out (nearly 200 pp) but you can download it and look up cardstock to check for recycled content and percentages. You can find the product guide in the list in the Printing Place, within the My Business Resources menu.
In addition, rubber is considered a renewable natural resource (from certain trees, right?), while acrylic stamps and blocks are made from petroleum products, a non-renewable resource.
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I am impressed with the green info. I am so happy to to be using SU products. I'm going to tell my friends. also my daughter is always looking for presents that are green so now I can ask for SU stuff. yea
Our exclusive colors average 15-25% virgin fiber (northern soft wood), and the rest is recycled. A few of the very light colors require 40% virgin fiber to achieve the pale colors.
SU!'s Carbon Footprint
