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Cleaning up our act
The Free Press is making strides, some long overdue, towards reducing our carbon footprint
A few months ago, all used computer paper, empty plastic bottles and spent batteries at the Winnipeg Free Press offices ended up in the trash.
Sure, there were lots of those blue recycling bins, but nobody seemed to know where the contents of those bins went.
Every month, the Free Press uses 1,600 tonnes of newsprint that contains almost no recycled fibre. The enviro footprint is equal to about 147,342,000 pounds of carbon emissions.
It seemed that while the Free Press recycles everything from car parts to wooden pallets -- not to mention about 95 per cent of its waste and scrap newsprint -- some of the most conspicuous blue-bin basics were landing in the landfill.
That's what a newly formed Free Press committee discovered this year as it started looking at ways to cut the company's carbon footprint.
Read more: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/green/story/4214220p-4806830c.html
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