Have you ever noticed how recycled goods always seem to be printed with a notice that they are recycled- how sensible is that? Sure, on this envelope I’ve posted, it doesn’t take very much ink- but, how about on all of our envelopes combined- is there a significant environmental impact?
According to Cannon, the average printed page takes .81ml of ink per square foot. The logo is about 1 square inch- so, using conservative estimates, it takes 0.0005625 ml of ink to print it. The population of Canada is about 34.5 million people. Let’s estimate that the average person get’s ten envelopes a month (between work, school and personal mail.) This means 345 million envelopes per month- or 4.14 billion envelopes a year.
That calculates to about 2,330 litres of ink used per-year in Canada. In the US, with a population of about 311 million, they are using about 21,000 litres of ink. And this is all to remind us that we’re being green!
What a waste…