Environmental Commitment Wind Power and FSC Paper and Envelopes

Our vision is to provide you with the best papers, envelopes and graphics arts tools available while providing friendly, thoughtful and helpful customer service. We do this in concert with what might be the largest selection of eco-preferable fine paper products available online. Internally we operate our company using as many eco-preferable processes and resources as we can. We support wind power, because it is clean, renewable, American made and creates more jobs here.

We believe responsible use of resources is smart. And we want to help you make informed choices for your projects. From your "concept to completion" we give you the most eco-preferable choices supported by our educational materials, detailed product information and our growing list of like-minded suppliers. We hope to be a reliable resource and a part of your solution when creating paper based projects.

Here's how we think

The Paper Mill Store is making real change to its business practices to become a better steward of the environment. As with any business this is a long journey and one which we've committed ourselves to maintain. Here we give a brief overview of our latest commitments.

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Paper and Envelopes

The Paper Mill Store is an Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody (CoC) certificate holder. We are certified by the Rainforest Alliance Smartwood program as meeting the FSC CoC requirements.

The Rainforest Alliance aims to help reconcile our growing demands for trees and other forest flora with a diminishing supply.

See how certified manufacturers and distributors can add value to your projects by using the Rain Forest Alliance logo

The Paper Mill Store uses 100% wind power a renewable energy source. With this purchase of “green power,” we are recognized as a Partner in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Green Power Partnership and Green Power Leadership Club.

Here's how our use of renewable energy helps

EPA Green Power Partner The Paper Mill Store

100% Carbon Neutral Shipping

As of January 1, 2008 we are offsetting 100% of the carbon dioxide produced by our shipping products to your door.

What this means is that we now calculate the carbon footprint associated with our outbound product shipping and we subsequently purchase carbon offsets to lessen the impact of the carbon produced by our outbound shipping process.

Eco-Shipping Materials

We carefully choose the materials we use to ship your packages.

We strive to reduce the amount of material we use in each order but at the same time make sure that your paper and envelope order will arrive in perfect condition.

For packing materials we use:

NSF-SFICOC-6T721

Profitable and well managed forests keep the forests healthy and discourage destructive development.

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Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Certified Paper. The SFI logo in the left column bears our individual SFI registration number for your review.

The Paper Mill Store has received it SFI CoC certification as of February 13, 2008. Shortly we will invite you to review our selection of SFI certified papers and we can help you to understand what SFI paper is and how it benefits our environment.

Understanding what SFI certified papers provide in environmental benefits and how you can benefit from properly using the SFI logo on your design projects. it means to you is important.

SFI logo usage guidelines

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Paper and Envelopes

The Paper Mill Store is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody certified for handling FSC certified paper and envelopes. The FSC logo in the left column bears our individual FSC registration number for your review. This means that when we say you are purchasing FSC certified paper and envelopes from us you can be certain the claim is credible and that the fiber used to manufacture our paper and envelopes, designated as FSC certified, came from well managed forests where people, wildlife and the environmental benefit from the forestry practices. FSC certification is globally recognized as being the most credible and strongest system for ensuring well managed forests.

FSC logo useage guidelines

As the founder of The Paper Mill Store, I believe that environmental responsibility is a multi-faceted effort, and as a company we are doing our best to make sustainable smart choices. We use 100% wind power to provide the electrical needs of our company, we are offsetting 100% of the carbon produced by our outbound shipping, we are developing FSC papers, SFI papers and recycled papers, we are an FSC Chain of Custody certificate holder, and we are actively seeking ways to reduce our energy usage, utilizing more and higher percentage recycled materials in our packaging and we are encouraging our suppliers to offer more recycled paper and to employ more energy saving processes while providing our customers with the best paper choices possible.

As a long time paper company executive, I take the issue of a clean environment and sustainability seriously and I am personally very proud of our industry’s (and our) voluntary efforts to make more environmentally responsible choices and to make real substantiated changes in our collective business practices. I hope you find the information on sustainable paper helpful, and I wish you the very best in pursuing your own environmental goals.

- Brian Cowie, C.E.O. and Founder