TWISTED LIMB PAPERWORKS 
and THE ENVIRONMENT

     WHY USE CHLORINE FREE PAPER?


Environmental conservation is a top priority at Twisted Limb.

By creating your invitations and stationery with 100% recycled junk mail and office paper, 
we will recycle approximately 1536 pounds of paper this year.

We just don't make 100% recycled products, we incorporate sustainability into everything we do. . .

We print out invitation drafts, e-mail requests, etc. on scrap paper, using both sides to a piece of paper 
(This conserves approximately 290 pounds of paper every year.) before recycling it back into your invitations and stationery. 
Anything that we can't recycle into new products gets recycled with Monroe County Solid Waste Management District.
We recycle approximately 1250 pounds of paper this way annually.

All of our office paper, letterhead and business envelopes are made from 100% recycled post consumer waste.

We use 100% recycled envelopes to mail literature and invitation samples to you.
The file folders, toilet paper and facial tissue used in our workplace are all made with100% recycled paper.
Organic fair trade coffee and organic half and half are served in our office as well.

Water used in the  paper making process is recycled from the studio's dehumidifiers and air conditioner whenever possible 
to conserve this essential resource. We recycle approximately 2700 gallons of water each year, approximately 55% of our water needs.

Stems from the dried flowers that go into your paper are composted.

We pack your order with recycled shredded paper instead of styrofoam peanuts.

22% of our profits is donated to environmental and community groups each year. 
10% is given as cash donations. 12% is given in the form of in-kind contributions.
Our favorite local groups to contribute to:
Sycamore Land Trust, the Eco-groups at Bloomington Environmental Center, 
Habitat for Humanity, Middleway House, and Girls, Inc.

We offset 100% of the carbon dioxide created by running our facility, employee commuting and business travel 
with SCI REMC's EnviroWatts green electricity credits and by investing in wind farms through Native Energy.


 

 
Twisted Limb would like to thank 
Tichenor Publishing of Bloomington, Indiana
for recycling their used office paper with our studio.

 
PAPER RECYCLING TIDBITS

Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.--enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years

Recycling of each ton of paper saves 17 trees, 7000 gallons of water  and 10,785 kilowatt-hours of electricity 

Production of recycled paper uses 80% less water, 65% less energy and produces 95% less air pollution than virgin paper production. 

If offices throughout the country increased the rate of two-sided photocopying from the 1991 figure of 20% to 60%, 
they could save the equivalent of about 15 million trees. 

 
WHY USE CHLORINE FREE PAPER?
Dioxins, one of the most deadly families of compounds known to humans, are created when hlorine bleaches are used to treat lumber or paper pulps, and also during incineration of other compounds.  Although most organochlorine compounds are produced intentionally, they can also be produced unintentionally. Organochlorines do not break down easily. They are remarkably persistent and long-lasting. Studies show that organochlorine compounds can last for decades, hundreds, even thousands of years. Hundreds of millions of pounds of these substances are released into the environment annually, causing harm to wildlife, ecosystems and human health. They have been implicated in cancers, reproductive disorders, hermaphroditism, neurobehavioral impairment and reduced intelligence capacity. These Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) resist breakdown in sunlight and persist for years. They are “fat-loving”, which means they accumulate in body tissue and move up the food chain. We do not know how long we can continue to create molecular-level toxic garbage that floats in the air, seeps into our water, lodges in the fat, targets our genes, and interacts with biological evolution, before life as we know it is irrevocably altered. . .
-Taken from Ecology of Commerce

 
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