March 2009
When Mohawk Fine Papers released its interactive Environmental Calculator in 2004, small businesses and major corporations around the globe were able to calculate the number of trees they could save and the amount of greenhouse gases they would prevent from releasing by using papers with environment-saving attributes.
Now with recent upgrades to the Calculator, businesses can also calculate savings by offsetting direct thermal manufacturing emissions with Verified Emission Reduction credits (VERs); and combining VER benefits with windpower savings, Mohawk becomes the first paper mill in America to offer carbon neutral calculations.
“Our revised on-line Environmental Calculator computes the additional benefits of supporting qualified greenhouse gas mitigation projects through the purchase of VERs. In 2007, Mohawk joined the U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders Program and, as a condition of membership, Mohawk counted the greenhouse gas emissions for which it has direct responsibility. That same year, Mohawk began to purchase VERs as offsets to those emissions,” said Michelle Carpenter, Manager, Corporate Environmental Initiatives, Mohawk Fine Papers.
Many companies today are calculating each project’s environmental savings to promote their own awareness of, and efforts toward, sustainable practice. For example, if a company prints an annual report and uses 10,000 lbs. of paper, by using Beckett Cambric 100% PC White instead of a virgin sheet, that company would create an environmental savings equal to:
Because this Mohawk paper selection is manufactured with wind-generated energy and also with carbon offsets, there is an additional environmental savings of: 11,000 lbs. greenhouse gas emissions not generated, which is equivalent to 12 barrels of fuel oil unused, or not driving 10,886 miles in an average car, or planting 748 trees
“Even in these tough times Mohawk remains committed to sustainability in the broadest sense of the word. Our efforts are comprehensive and woven into the fabric of our corporate culture and business practices. Energy and materials conservation initiatives go hand in hand with a broader effort to reduce our carbon intensity by helping to fund climate beneficial projects,” said George Milner, SVP, Energy, Environmental and Government Affairs for Mohawk Fine Papers.
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