The average person uses more than 300 kilograms of paper annually according to Zero waste. Just think what that can rise to if you are getting married that year. We worked out that an average wedding has around 50 invites that are sent out. Add to that paper tally, envelopes, gift lists and information sheets and you could be looking at about 200 sheets of paper per wedding!
Saving tress is one way Paperless Wedding strives to reduce the stress on our environment but also by decreasing the carbon emissions from the planes and vans that actually deliver these precious invites.
Here in New Zealand we are supposed to be “maintaining” our Green House Gase emission levels at those of 1990, but already we have crept up at least 24% and we are still headed on a spiralling upward path.
What should we be doing? What can ‘I’ do to help resolve this problem?
If you are getting married use Paperless Wedding!!!
After the wedding don’t stop there, we believe there is a lot more that can be done. Start by actually reducing your energy use ( e.g. by reducing the number of journeys), by increasing the efficiency of our energy use ( using more efficient transport modes such as walking or public transport), and by wasting less energy (such as turning appliances off at the wall, by installing solar hot water heating).
Check out this website on what you can recycle, where you can recycle and what you can do to help our climate.
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