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Comment by Green Printer on April 30, 2011 at 9:00am

I teach sustainable pressroom practices. Currently I have successfully finished 11 printing firms with number 12 on there way.  These printing firms have eliminated all HAPS, SARA 313s, California Prop 65's along with heat, air conditioning and energy reductions. If we could get all printing firms trained there would tens of thousands of tons reduction in chemical usage  Accompany this renewable bio based products and the carbon footprint of print manufacturing drops.   Communications based on renewable recyclable sources, paper, ink and chemistry will be the lowest carbon footprint communications next to speaking.  Renewable sources such as paper are carbon sequestering  methods that can be recycled into more product or burned for energy.  For instance a 10 year old book has been sequestering and storing carbon it the book is recycled it continues its sequestering if it is burned for energy it has released its sequestered carbon and the cycle repeats. If †he book is landfilled it will eventually convert to methane and if the landfill is tapped for gas useaged the carbon is released as energy.