New York Web Design Company Going Green – part 2

Web design companies can make a difference on the planet. Every time we make a positive choice, we can make a huge difference not only on our immediate environment, but even on a much larger scale.

Let me give you one small example. When thinking about the recession and its consequences on some people, you might dab a few tears with a facial tissue. Or since you want to come to work even when you’re sick, you might use the tissues in the office to deal with a runny or stuffed-up nose. But the tissue you reach for can make a difference! The Natural Resources Defense Council has calculated that if every household in the United States replaced just one box of conventional facial tissues (175 count) with 100% recycled ones, together we could save 163,000 trees for our children’s world. Many of these trees would be valuable virgin wood. Saving forests helps reduce global warming.

There are more benefits… Recycled tissues are made from previously used paper that would otherwise have gone into a landfill or burned in an incinerator. The people at Seventh Generation have calculated all of us switching just one box of facial tissues would save more than 453,000 cubic feet of landfill space (equal to a procession of 660 full garbage trucks) and avoid more than 10,600 pounds of pollution. Along the way, it would also save more than 62 million gallons of water, a year’s supply for 480 families of four.

And the benefits continue… The recycled tissues require considerably less energy to produce. Conventional tissues are often bleached with chlorine, which creates dangerous chemicals including dioxin, and other organochlorines. These accumulate in the environment, and in people and animals. If you make a smart choice and select tissues that have not been bleached with chlorine, you can help toxins out of your immediate environment - and out of the larger environment.

All of this good from replacing just one box of facial tissues! Let’s join together to make choices that are good for our lives and for the environment.

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