Green Bugs

Trees are obviously very important. Without them we would all be in a lot of trouble. Around 4 billion trees are used every year to make paper. As our need to paper continues to rise it makes sense to do what we can to try and reduce the amount of trees cut down. The first step should be to ensure that any paper products you buy, be it paper, card, greetings cards, wrapping paper, magazines, posters etc has come from a managed forest (usually denoted by the FSC logo.) This means that although trees are cut down to make this paper product at least one is planted in its place.

If you would like to go one step further, look for recycled paper products. This re-uses discarded paper to make new clean paper once again. More often than not there is no discernible difference between new and recycled, except that you have helped prevent the chopping down of a tree. Any paper that you do use, make sure you use it to its fullest. Don’t discard a piece of paper because you made a small mistake. Use it as scrap paper, perhaps near the telephone to take messages or to leave notes for your loved ones to do the dishes etc!

You can re-use envelopes using the envelope re-use labels available from the stationery section, and some recycled Post it Notes When your paper has been as useful as it can possibly be to you don’t just throw it away but make sure that you get it recycled. This way it can be useful to you or someone else once again. Check out all the products in the Stationary section. You will find a myriad of useful things. Oh – and use the free Wikaniko e-Kards (online greeting card service) to reduce the number of cards you have to send out in the post! It will save you a fortune too….