Go Green

Considering whether your organization should make the switch from paper towels? Here's what multiple environmental organizations and government agencies, including the EPA, want you to know about the environmental costs of paper production:

• 17 trees are consumed to make one ton of paper
• Every single ton of paper produced consumes tons of oil and pollutes 20,000 gallons of water
• Paper trash comprises approximately 40% of our municipal waste - one ton of paper consumes three cubic yards of landfill
• The environmental costs of paper fabrication include: deforestation, pollution and contaminated sediments in nearby sources of water, air pollution from pulp and paper mills (including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxides and particulates), and solid waste production

Cutting back on paper waste is an imperative for any organization hoping to become more environmentally sound.

The XLERATOR is an effective source reduction alternative.