Hey, we know you love books. Who doesn’t? But what about all the trees that are used to produce the paper for these books? About 20 million trees are being cut down EVERY YEAR to produce the books sold in the U.S. alone. What can you do about it? Well, here’s a suggestion: stop reading… NO, NO. just kiddin’.
A better solution would be to start planting trees for all the books you read. To let you do just that, we thought up Eco-Libris, a means to balance out the paper in your books by planting trees. To maximize your impact, the trees will be planted in developing countries benefiting both the environment and local communities. Eco-libris website here.
ALA
Instead of putting out useless resolutions condemning the war in Iraq, (Which has nothing to do with libraries) they could be banding libraries together to require that books purchased by libraries use recycled paper.
3% more
Libraries can require that books be on recycled paper. Books made of recycled paper cost about 3% more. Bump your acquisitions budget 3% and demand recycled books and we can save some virgin forest.
Thinking outside the box why even make paper out of trees? Why not make paper out of corn stalks?