Local Paper for Surrey

Overview

Interested in recycling your office paper? Local Paper for Surrey is a web based information service,
that will help make it easy for you to start a sustainable paper cycle in your organisation.

There are three steps to the local paper cycle:

Step 1. recycle your office paper

Step 2. buy back a locally recycled paper

Step 3. reduce your paper use

By taking just one of these steps you will be helping the environment. However, by doing all three you will have ‘closed the loop’ for your paper use and reduced your environmental impact for paper by 85% - the most environmentally friendly solution.

Benefits

Benefits to business

Local Paper for Surrey is a great idea for organisations of all shapes and sizes!

• if you take part in all three steps your organisation can save money!
  This is through reducing paper consumption, negotiating better contracts from your paper supplier and also reducing trade waste charges by diverting significant volumes of paper waste for recycling. For example, Direct Line insurance saved 20% on their paper budget when joining Local Paper for London scheme.

improve your organisation’s environmental performance.

• improve staff morale, as employees are keen to see their organisations actively seeking to reduce their environmental impact.
• recycling is a labour intensive activity, so taking part in the LP4S scheme helps provide jobs and boost the local economy.

Benefits to the environment

• the ecological footprint of local paper is just 14% of imported virgin paper.
• reduction in the amount of waste requiring landfill and incineration.
• protect biodiversity by reducing our reliance on the world's forests for timber used to make paper.
• reduction in the amount of fossil fuels used for the transportation of wood pulp and paper. (The waste paper used to produce Evolve has only travelled 73 miles on average, as opposed to the wood and pulp for an equivalent paper, which as travelled 1400 miles.)
• most of the wood consumed in Indonesian pulp mills is still derived from clear cutting ancient rainforest - some of which still makes its way to the UK markets. (WWF 2000)
• Evolve paper is made without using environmentally harmful chemicals used in some other production methods.

1. Recycle

Why recycle?

We are fast running out of landfill space! However white office paper is a high-grade product that can be recycled and turned back into high quality 100% recycled paper. 
 
How we can make recycling easy for you...
You can download an information pack listing paper collectors in the Surrey area who will be suitable for your needs.

All of the collectors that we recommend keep their white paper separate from the rest of their waste and transport it to the local mill, where it is de-inked and used to produce more office paper. You can contact the collectors and organise collections.

The collector can supply paper recycling bins and we can provide posters and labels to remind staff where they should be putting their used paper!

Click here to download the list of Surrey paper collectors.

2. Buy Back

It is important not only to recycle your waste paper but also to close the loop by buying paper made from your recycled waste. 

This is because there needs to be a stable market for recycled products so that it is economically viable to collect and recycle the waste.

EVOLVE is the brand of office paper that closes the loop in the Local Paper for Surrey cycle. The reason we recommend Evolve is that it is made locally at a mill in Kent by M-Real from 100% genuine waste paper collected from offices in the South East.

Why make EVOLVE your first choice?
Evolve is a high quality, bright white smooth office paper which is available in two types - Office or Business depending on your needs. It is guaranteed on printer and copiers and is one of the few recycled papers that is guaranteed to last over 100 years if archived. We can make it easy for you by... providing you with free samples and a list of stockists who provide Evolve at competitive prices.

Order Evolve from suppliers across Surrey -  click here for a list of suppliers.

Reduce use

By 2020 worldwide paper consumption is expected to double, however paper already accounts for 42% of industrial forest use.
Also, in the UK it is estimated that in order for us to consume our fair share of the world’s wood resources we should reduce our consumption by 73%.

Minimising your paper use is easy....
Minimising your paper use is the easiest way to reduce your impact on the environment, and save money at the same time!
Use the following tips to help you cut your paper use by up to 20%.

• Does it have to be printed? If it is an email or a document that can be stored electronically it is better not to print it. Printing just causes clutter and wastes money, paper and trees. 
• Email. Sending emails rather than letters saves money, time and paper.
• Printing e-mails. If you have to print e-mails, select all the e-mails by holding down Control whilst clicking to select them. Then click File-Print and make sure that Start each item on a new page is not ticked.
• Printing long documents. You can often fit two pages onto one A4 sheet. Try clicking File-Print-Properties-Features and choosing 2 pages per sheet.
• Margins. You can reduce margins on word under File-Page Setup- reducing them to 2cm and click ‘default’. This will reduce the amount of paper used for large documents.
• Text Size. Using a smaller text size will also reduce paper used for large documents.
• Both sides. If you only use one side of paper you are only using half the product you paid for! Click File-Print-Properties-Features and select Two-Sided.
• Use Scrap. Paper already used on one side can be used to print internal documents if your printer does not support double-sided printing, as well as for making notes.
• Sign up to the Mailing Preference Service. Go to www.mpsonline.org.uk to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive

Download the following support materials to help promote paper minimisation in your office:

Click here for a poster to put by photocopiers and printers to remind your colleagues how to minimise their paper use.

Click here for a poster to stick on your paper bin to remind everyone what to recycle

Click here for a label for your paper box lid, can be used for scrap paper

Click here for a reminder card for your computer monitor.