Canada is Green Book Leader
Comments(0) I was excited and proud when I read this article in the Toronto Star that said that Canada is leading the book industry in terms of eco-friendliness.
Vit Wagner writes:
115 Canadian publishers, accounting for between 60 and 75 per cent of the market here, have implemented ecologically improved paper-purchasing policies, according to a 2008 report by Markets Initiative, a Canadian environmental non-governmental organization that lobbies the publishing and printing sectors to increase their use of recycled paper stock.
While this is excellent news, we still have a ways to go. I’m constantly hearing in school that recycled paper isn’t high quality enough and lots of things currently being published aren’t recyclable.
But it’s a start! Yay Canada! Read the full article here.
