Your Guide to Environmental Copy Paper for NSW

Our newly updated brochure offers simple and effective solutions for homes, organisations and businesses wanting to protect native forests and prevent climate change.

• Download our paper guide and make the switch to 100 percent post consumer paper today

Paper use is one of the greatest drivers behind deforestation worldwide. Every year, over 15 million hectares of the Earth’s forests are destroyed. In Australia, since European settlement, over 90% of our old growth forests have been cleared or logged. 

Today, woodchipping for paper production continues to drive the destruction of native forests in Australia, with over three quarters of all trees logged being woodchipped. 

Australia’s forests are home to more than half of our native plants and animals. Logging these areas destroys habitat crucial to the survival of native wildlife.  

The destruction of native forests through logging contributes significantly to climate change, releasing the carbon stored within the forests into the atmosphere. Where logging occurs for woodchips, almost all of this carbon enters the atmosphere within just 3 years. 

Currently, approximately 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from clearing, logging and degradation of the world's intact forests. This represents a higher percentage of emissions than those coming from the transport sector – that is, all of the cars, trucks, planes, ships and trains combined, worldwide. 

Logging degrades water catchments and reduces water supplies. Protecting our native forests will also protect our precious water supplies into the future.

Our ‘Guide to Environmental Copy Paper’ brochure helps you to make informed choices about the paper you use in your office and home, and reduce the impact on the world around you. 

• Download our paper guide and make the switch to 100 percent post consumer paper today

Making the switch to recycled paper won’t cost you the earth – but it will help to stop the destruction of our precious native forests.