Friends of Print and Paper sets up website

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Friends of Print and Paper is a new website set up by volunteers to help print and paper prove their environmental credentials. It does this by presenting claims that ink on paper can be carbon neutral if certain actions are undertaken by the industry at large.

One of the organisers is John Roche, a consutlant and software developer for the printing industry.

‘We are people who work in the printing and paper industries and we love it,’ says the website. ‘We care, because we have watched the industry we love shrink and erode around us. The reasons for this are complex and manifold, but a key driver has been the adoption of new electronic technologies in preference of the printed medium and the universally held opinion that printing and paper manufacturing are bad for the environment. How truly ironic this is, for it is precisely the opposite that is true. /The demand for paper, that the printing industry helps to drive, leads directly to the planting of millions of sapling trees that sequester enormous amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, reducing the effects of global warming. Moreover, this simple action helps to offset some of the emissions caused by electronic media - the very organisation's who would have us dismantled.’

Contact: www.fopap.org"