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We know HR creates paperwork
Rewilding the Scottish Highlands.
Thanks to the energy and materials needed to operate - including the endless generation of both paper and digital documents - the average UK SME generates around 15 tonnes of CO2 annually (The Carbon Trust). To offset this, you’d need to plant around 500 new trees every year!
That’s why Holla HR take their Corporate Social Responsibility seriously and are a partner of Trees for Life.
Whilst it’s a drop in the ocean in real terms, we know that every small contribution helps. That’s why, for every collaboration, we plant a tree for your business!
What is Trees for Life?
Trees for Life is a charity that has been working to rewild the Scottish Highlands since 1993.
They are currently working to create new wild forests that will benefit everyone: helping to reduce the impacts of climate change by storing carbon; preventing flooding and erosion by holding back water after rain and; providing opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people to experience and be inspired by wild nature.
Not only that, Trees for Life foster biodiversity and encourage natural processes essential to life. From the iconic red squirrel to the elusive lynx, volunteers are working to bring more life back to our landscapes.
What is rewilding?
Rewilding is the large-scale restoration of nature. It enriches landscapes and provides essential habitat for the wildlife and people who call these places home.
Trees for Life brings a holistic approach to rewilding. With ground-breaking approaches to land management, biodiversity, food security, livelihoods, climate change and a passion to leave a landscape in better health than they found it.
Rewilding is also about seeing human activity as part of an intricate system in which everything is connected. As people, we’ve become disconnected from nature to the point where we view ourselves as separate from it - not part of it. But everything we do has an impact.
Trees for life collaborate with landowners to facilitate successful rewilding projects and know that landowners, local communities and business need to thrive alongside the wild forest.
5 paper-specific statistics
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In the UK, the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year - that’s one tree every single year!
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It takes 10 litres of water to produce a single sheet of A4 paper. With 500 sheets per ream of paper, that’s 5,000 litres per ream.
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199 tonnes of paper are produced across the world every 15 seconds
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In a single month, the environmental effects of paper production result in over 2 million hectares of forest being burned across the world
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Digitising trade documents, businesses and government departments could contribute to reducing the world’s logistics-related carbon emissions by up to 12%
Data from Global Office Paper Waste Statistics
