Calculate environmental savings realized when using Utopia products with extra post-consumer fiber and Green Power.
Option A is the base amount of post-consumer recovered fiber content that you might want to compare with an increased amount of PCRF in Option B. Add Green Power to the mix if you plan to use it and you are ready to go.
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Option A Calculations
Option A
Option B
Trees Saved
Post consumer recovered fiber (PCRF) displaces wood fiber with savings translated as trees. (Trees - the number of typical trees assumes a mix of hardwoods and softwoods 6-8" in diameter and 40' tall.)
Energy Saved
PCRF content displaces energy used to process equivalent virgin fiber. (Homes per year - The average US household uses 91 million BTUs of energy in a year.)
Kilo-watt Hours Saved
Number of Kilo-watt hours of electricity offset by purchase of renewable energy.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction
PCRF content reduces greenhouse gas emissions (measured in CO2 equivalents) that would be generated by equivalent virgin fiber production.
Purchasing green power significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions as well. (Cars per year - the average car emits 11,013 pounds of CO2 in a year.)
Waste Water Reduction
PCRF content eliminates wastewater needed to process equivalent virgin fiber. (Swimming pools - 1 Olympic-sized swimming pool holds 660,430 gallons.)
Solid Waste Reduction
PCRF content eliminates solid waste generated by producing an equivalent amount of virgin fiber through the pulp and paper manufacturing process. (Garbage trucks - 1 fully-loaded garbage truck weighs an average of 28,000 lbs.)
Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense paper
calculator and the U.S. EPA’s Power Profiler. Both sites are listed under
Resources.
