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What's next?: Have a huge celebration!
This is a major victory and you have played a big part in reducing wood consumption in the US and increased the market for tree-free paper. However, there is other work to be done. For instance how does your university handle waste and recycling? What about radioactive and hazardous waste? Is your university energy efficient? The list goes on.
Mary Anne Peine and Jamie Pizzirusso have revised their 1997 publication, Environmental Blueprint for the Twenty-first Century: The Greening of Big Orange. This is an excellent resource for any college and university that wants to comprehensively address their campus environmental policies. In this well documented publication examples and resources are cited. Any group wanting a copy of this should contact Mike McKinney: 423-974-2368 or MMcKinney@utk.edu.
Students have been incredibly effective in the environmental movement and will continue to be, but it is important that older students successfully recruit and pass their legacy to younger students. All your hard work should not be lost simply because you graduate. Keep things going, but don't forget to have fun. Enjoy what Mother Earth has given us and rejoice in it. It is what we all are working for.
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Glossary of Terms
ECF - Elemental Chlorine Free: paper manufactured with chlorine dioxide rather than elemental chlorine in its bleaching process. This produces lower levels of organochlorines than paper bleached with elemental chlorine.
PCF - Processed Chlorine Free: recycled paper processed without additional chlorine or chlorine derivatives.
TCF - Totally Chlorine Free: paper with 100% virgin wood fibers manufactured without chlorine or chlorine derivatives.
PCW - Post Consumer Waste: paper produced from recovered wood products.
RP - Recycled Paper: paper that may be made from wood by-products that occur when processing trees. Recycled paper may not be made from finished wood products or recovered paper. Also known as pre-consumer recycled content.
TF - Tree-Free: paper that is produced from totally tree-free fibers.
NVW - No Virgin Wood: paper that is 100% PCW, 100% TF, or a combination.
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