Welcome to the home of the world’s first Guerrilla Public Service Announcement—These Come From Trees stickers!
An experiment in environmentalism, viral marketing, and user interface design with the goal of reducing consumer paper waste—since 2007.
*Note: We kept the old Blogger website up if you’re feeling nostalgic.
Buy These Come From Trees Stickers!
Did you know that this little sticker can save up to 100 lbs. of paper every year?
A typical fast food restaurant with two bathrooms can use up to 2,000 pounds of paper towels a year.
There are roughly 197,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. as of 2021. That’s a LOT of paper usage!
Quick Facts
Paper napkins use 24.5 gallons of water to get produced, and they release 7.5 pounds of greenhouse gases*.
We need to consider the amount of energy and resources it requires to recapture some of that paper and recycle it. The lifecycle of recycled paper involves a staggering amount of resources. (*Stats via TreeHugger.)
The U.S. produces about 20.7 million tons of paper a year, but we only recycle 53%, according to the American Forest and Paper Association.
Only about a third of new paper comes from recycled paper. Another third is from waste such as sawdust and scrap from lumber mills, according to the EPA.
In 2008, paper and cardboard consumption totaled 392.7 million metric tons worldwide. In 2018, it increased to almost 422 million metric tons.
So yep, we do need to find a way to use less paper. Even as we are recycling more of it, we’re also using more of it.
The TCFT Education Challenge
Are you an educator looking for a fun class project? Check out our Education Challenge! The idea of education is a big piece of These Come From Trees. That is to say, at the end of the day, the individual stickers themselves are a quick, polite piece of instruction that help us all say "Oh, yeah, that's right. How much of these do I really need?" So it only makes sense that These Come From Trees stickers and schools would make a great team!
P.S. Earth Day is on April 22, 2023. Be sure to order early for your class or school projects!
