Is It Easy Being Green?

One of these companies is Xerox, which happens to be one of the largest distributors of cut-sheet paper. The company recently launched a mechanical fiber paper engineered for digital printing. Its High Yield Business Paper is made using a mechanical pulping process, a “greener” process than is used for standard digital paper. This paper uses 90 percent of the tree versus only 45 percent used to make traditional digital printing paper. The process also requires less water, fewer chemicals and is produced in a plant using hydroelectricity to partially power the pulping process, reducing fossil fuel consumption and resulting in up to a 75 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.