Green Printing Postcards are the Best Way to Show You Care
Postcards are the traditional way to show your friends and family that you’re thinking of them in whatever exotic or exciting locale you visit. They’re also a wonderful souvenir to take home at the end of the vacation and reminisce over the beauty you saw during your stay. But the thing about postcards that most people don’t realize is that the production of these cards is actually damaging, harmful to the environment, and thus the very beauty they’re trying to commemorate. Fortunately, green printing postcards can serve to both immortalize the memory of your time spent, while doing your part to conserve the environment at the same time.
How can buying green postcards help to maintain the environment?
While they depict the beauty of nature’s bounty, the production of cardstock from natural resources like trees and water can actually harm the global ecosystem. The byproducts of the processes, such as greenhouse gases and solid waste materials, are also damaging to the fragile environment we hold so dear. However, by the simple substitution of green postcard printing, we can actually do a lot to reduce the amount of harmful byproducts, and conserve the natural vital resources that we rely on. Simply printing gorgeous, vibrant photos on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper cardstock, the cutting down of trees and the use of life-giving water are vastly reduced, by pounds and gallons.
And of course, the inks that make up those lovely pictures are created from petroleum based components, which are known to be damaging to the environment. By replacing those synthetic and chemical- laden inks with those made from soy and other vegetables, a truly renewable resource, not only are the harmful effects of petroleum reduced, but the gases and waste materials from the refinement processes are lessened as well. With recycled paper and vegetable inks, eco-friendly postcards can both celebrate the beauty of the world around us and help to keep it beautiful.
Will these eco-friendly postcards be as nice as their non-recycled counterparts?
There is no difference in the visual aesthetic of green printing postcards versus regular, non-sustainable postcards. The quality of recycled cardstock is just as high-grade as that made from wood, the colors just as vibrant as petroleum based ink. The blue of the ocean on one postcard is virtually indistinguishable from that of another; the quality of the paper the same. The difference lies not in the quality, but in the carbon footprint in production. And therein, the differences are vast. Green postcard printing is a wonderful means of sharing all the vibrancy of the fishes, the vastness of the Grand Canyon, the crystalline wonder of snow on the mountains without damaging these natural wonders.
Help Sustain the Environment
Recycling metals, plastics and paper at home or at work is of course a terrific way to help maintain, even heal, the earth’s natural wonder. However, mass-produced materials like postcards seem to get lost amid the conservation effort, largely because people simply don’t consider the impact of one little photo memento. Sadly, what they fail to consider is that although it’s only one little photo memento for them, there are thousands upon thousands produced and sold daily. By making the simple switch to eco-friendly postcards, the tons of wood and water are conserved; greenhouse gases and solid waste byproducts are reduced. This in turn helps to protect the environment and all its natural beauty. There really is no better way to show your friends, family and the Earth that you care.
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