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|  | | | | | | | Pitney Bowes will soon publish an important new study that is the first comprehensive attempt to address the environmental impact of mail, and to put that impact in the context of many daily consumer activities. It also strives to bring together the mailing industry to better understand and quantify our environmental footprint and deliver continuous improvement. | | | | Mail makes up only a small fraction of most consumers carbon footprint. Mail's carbon footprint is very small. For example, running a single refrigerator for a year is roughly equivalent to the creation and delivery of 5,000 letters. | | Nevertheless, mail does have an environmental impact. A robust set of data is needed for accurately estimating mail's CO2 emissions throughout its life cycle. | | Mail is from an increasingly renewable resource: trees. Sustainable forests and their related products are increasing in developed countries, despite growth in population and economic activity. | | The mailing industry has adopted many initiatives to reduce mail's carbon footprint, but must foster stronger partnerships to further expand the environmental sustainability of mail and deliver continuous improvement. |
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