[1] Based on calculations made using the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive's Paper Calculator. Available at http://www.ofee.gov/recycled/calculat.htm.
[2] Paper Task Force. Paper Task Force Recommendations for Purchasing and Using Environmentally Preferable Paper, 1995, p. 199. Available at http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=1689.
[3] Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board of Minnesota. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Guide, Section 4.1. Available at http://www.greenguardian.com/eppg/4_1.asp.
[4] Based on calculations made using the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive's Paper Calculator. Available at http://www.ofee.gov/recycled/calculat.htm.
[5] Calculated using data from Conservatree's Web site. See http://www.conservatree.org/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml.
[6] Figures were calculated using the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive's Paper Calculator. Available at http://www.ofee.gov/recycled/calculat.htm.
[7] Conservatree, Environmentally Sound Paper Overview: Essential Issues. Part III - Making Paper: Content. Available at http://www.conservatree.org/learn/Essential%20Issues/EIPaperContent.shtml.
[8] United States Environmental Protection Agency, Fact Sheet: The Pulp and Paper Industry, the Pulping Process, and Pollutant Releases to the Environment (1997), 2-3. Available at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/pulppaper/jd/fs2.pdf.
[9] United States Environmental Protection Agency, ORD/NCER STAR Grants Dioxin Research Web page (2000). Available at http://es.epa.gov/ncer/publications/topical/dioxin.html.
[10] United States Environmental Protection Agency, Fact Sheet: The Pulp and Paper Industry, the Pulping Process, and Pollutant Releases to the Environment (1997), 2-3. Available at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/pulppaper/jd/fs2.pdf.
[11] Charles Finley, Ph.D. Printing Paper and Ink, Delmar Publishers, Albany, New York, 1997, p. 405.
[12] United States Environmental Protection Agency, Technical Document: EPA's Draft Report on the Environment 2003, p. 5-9. Available at http://www.epa.gov/Envindicators/roe/pdf/EPA_Draft_ROE.pdf
[13] Union of Concerned Scientists. Global Environment - Forests Web page. Available at http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/biodiversity/index.cfm.
[14] Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board of Minnesota. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Guide, Section 4.1. Available at http://www.greenguardian.com/eppg/4_1.asp.
[15] Fact Sheet: Buy Recycled Paper! by Susan Kinsella for the Recycled Paper Coalition, published by the Buy Recycled Business Alliance of the National Recycling Coalition (March 2000), p. 4. Available at http://www.conservatree.org/paper/PaperTypes/RPCrecypprFactSheet.pdf.
[16] Ibid.
[17] For an example, see the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Greening EPA Green Printing and Copying Web page. Available at http://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/practices/greenprinting.htm.
[18] United States Environmental Protection Agency. Greening EPA, EPA's Executive Order 13101 Goals for 2005 and 2010 Web page. Available at http://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/index.htm
[19] State of Washington. Sustainability Highlights Report. Available at http://www.ofm.wa.gov/sustainability/highlights/highlights05.pdf.
Special Note: Portions of the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Best Practices Manual were borrowed or adapted from the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Guide published by the Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board of Minnesota.
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