BookRenter.com saves you green by being green
By renting books, BookRenter.com promotes recycling: we reduce the number of new books printed through the reuse of existing ones.
On average, a book is reused five times. By re-renting books, BookRenter.com decreases demand for virgin fiber paper. The US book industry uses this paper for books, at a cost of approximately 20 million trees a year.
By reducing the number of trees cut for books, you also help reduce global warming- there are more trees to absorb carbon dioxide and there is less fuel being burned for cutting, transporting, and processing trees into paper.
In order for all parts of our business to be green, BookRenter.com gets help from the businesses and organizations below:
Certified as a Green Business by Santa Clara County in California, BookRenter.com implements internal practices that help curb pollution, conserve resources, and reduce waste.
By partnering with Carbonfund.org , BookRenter.com offsets the carbon emissions associated with the roundtrip shipping of customers' orders. BookRenter.com has directed its donation toward supporting renewable energy projects in hopes that in the future fossil fuels will be replaced by more modern, environmentally sustainable energy sources.
BookRenter.com has signed the Green Printing Initiative's Book Industry Treatise, a document which holds participants to the commitment of using paper responsibly in all areas of business.
