Join the Effort to Improve North America's Paper Recycling!

Paper is a necessary resource for business and personal use. We use it every day. We touch it multiple times in an hour. It’s so ingrained in our lives that we don’t even think about it anymore, least of all when it is discarded. However, the way we dispose of paper can have dramatic impacts on the climate, jobs, and the paper industry.

As an office manager, you use high-quality paper frequently - probably more frequently than the majority of other professionals - making you a key driver in the effort to stop climate change, preserve forests, create jobs, and sustain our domestic paper industry. Therefore, office and building managers are the RePaper Project’s prime audience. You play a critical role in the recycled paper cycle that begins with a healthy supply of recovered paper.

The more office managers understand the virtues of recycled paper and the needs of our domestic recycled paper manufacturers, the more likely office recycling programs will succeed in supplying our manufacturers with the material necessary to produce quality office paper.

Today in the United States only 50% of office paper is recovered for recycling.  Most of the rest is lost to landfills or incinerators. This is a shame, because as paper decomposes in a landfill, it releases methane, a climate warming gas 25 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. If it is burned, it still releases CO2. This is not only a significant waste of a valuable resource, it is drastically adding to our global pollution problem, especially since U.S. municipal landfills are composed of over one-quarter paper.