Cards of the Future
Do you ever question your total carbon footprint? Do you ever want to decrease it? How about an examination of what it takes to make printable cards? If you choose to send a piece of mail through the postal service, the US Postal service has calculated it uses around 121 million gallons of fossil fuel every year to deliver about 25.9 billion pounds of mail. This comes to roughly .01 lbs of C02 for every pound of mail that is sent. Compound this with that most printed material is composed of cellulose which is about 40% carbon. When this paper breaks down C02 gas is emitted which weighs 3.67 times more. Now you are looking at a carbon footprint from a piece of paper is about 1.5 times its actual weight.(Source:http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/postalfacts.htm) This doesn’t even begin to calculate what it take to produce the piece of paper & its cost of the environment. But, before you think this is some long tirade on the card industry & postal service I want you to learn about TheCustomCards.com
TheCustomCards.com’s aim to help reduce your carbon footprint, while doing in such a way so it can be fun for the whole family. You might think for doing so much to help the environment that the site should cost something for membership, but, it is free. You can choose to print you cards on your home/work printer or you can choose to send it in an email to a loved one. Its your choice. But, what an easy choice it is. The card application on TheCustomCards makes it easy to do both if you wanted to
So remember every day hundreds of thousands of people celebrate birthday’s & anniversaries. The Custom Cards offers its users a way to send free birthday cards costumed to your liking. Save a tree & help the environment today, send a card from TheCustomCard.
