Choose Green Report: Printing and Writing Papers

November 1999

As Green Seal likes to point out: “Despite technological advances and visions of the ‘paperless office,’ we are actually using more paper than before the electronic age.” (Or, as another pundit put it, the paperless office turned to be about as practical as the paperless bathroom.) Though much of the ensuing discourse (recycle and buy recycled) may have already seeped into our consciousness if not practices, there is a helpful explanation for those still puzzled by the difference between pre- and post-consumer content. Where Green Seal strikes gold on this one is with its compilation of recommended papers; the list stretches four (recyclable) pages!