Local Paper for London

Overview

Local Paper for London provides web based information to help your organisation use paper more sustainably.

It's based on the principle of a local paper cycle.

It's a 3 step scheme:

Step 1. send your paper for recycling at a local mill

Step 2. buy back recycled paper for your office - you can reduce the environmental impact of your paper use by 85%.

Step 3. Reduce paper use - also helps achieve this reduction and saves you money at the same time.

Click on the tabs above for all you need to start a local paper cycle in your office.

Benefits

Local Paper for London is a great idea for organisations of all shapes and sizes!

If you take part in all three steps your organisation can save money! This is through reducing paper consumption, negotiating better contracts from your paper supplier and also reducing trade waste charges by diverting significant volumes of waste for recycling. For example, Direct Line insurance saved 20% on their paper bills after employing Local Paper for London's advice.
 
Improve your organisation’s environmental performance.

• Improve staff morale as employees are keen to see their organisations actively seeking to reduce their environmental impact.
• Recycling is a labour intensive activity, so taking part in the Local Paper for London scheme helps provide jobs and boost the local economy.
• Raise the profile of your organisation through publicity generated as a result of the scheme.

Environmental benefits

Taking part in all three aspects of the Local Paper for London scheme leads to significant benefits for the environment.

• The ecological footprint of local paper is just 14% of imported virgin paper.
• Reduction in the amount of waste requiring landfill and incineration.
• Helping protect biodiversity by reducing our reliance on the world's forests for timber used to make paper.
• Reduction in the amount of fossil fuels used for the transportation of wood pulp and paper. (The waste paper used to produce Evolve has only travelled 73 miles on average, as opposed to the wood and pulp for an equivalent paper which as travelled 1400 miles).
• Most of the wood consumed in Indonesian pulp mills is still derived from clear cutting ancient rainforest - some of which still makes its way to the UK markets. (WWF 2000)
• Evolve paper is made without using environmentally harmful chemicals used in some other production methods.

1. Recycle

Recycle to save resources and money

If you don't recycle your office paper, it is likely that it will end up in a landfill, and we are fast running out of landfill space! However white office paper is a high-grade product that can be recycled and turned back into high quality 100% recycled paper.

Contact a paper collector for your area from the list below:

Central London (download PDF 64.7KB)

North London (download PDF 64.8KB)

South London (download PDF 66.1KB)

East London (download PDF 70.9KB)

West London (download PDF 62.8KB)

2. Buy Back

Buy recycled and you can get your own back!

It is important, not only to recycle your waste paper, but also to close the loop by buying paper made from your recycled waste. This is because there needs to be a stable market for recycled products so that it is economically viable to collect and recycle the waste. So the more people who buy recycled products – the cheaper it becomes to get your waste recycled.

EVOLVE is the brand of office paper that closes the loop in the Local Paper for London cycle.

Evolve is made locally at a mill in Kent by M-Real from 100% genuine waste collected from offices in the South East.

Why make EVOLVE your first choice?
Evolve is a high quality, bright white smooth office paper which is available in two types - Office or Business depending on your needs. It is guaranteed on printer and copiers and is one of the few recycled papers that is guaranteed to last over 100 years if archived.

Order Evolve from supplier across London - click here for a list of suppliers.

3. Reduce Use

Why reduce your paper use?

Over the past 20 years paper consumption worldwide has doubled, putting an increasing strain on the world's forests. Even with sustainably managed forests the planet cannot support unending growth and demand.

How can you reduce your paper use?

Minimising your paper use is the easiest way to reduce your impact on the environment, and save money at the same time!
For tips to reduce paper use by 20% click here.