Environmental Impact Statistics
A 1" by 60" by 144" slab of PaperStone Certified (versus a regular phenolic composite manufactured from virgin fiber and a regular, commercially available, solvent-based resin) saves:
- 1233 gallons of water
- 2.03 million BTU's of energy
- 131 pounds of solid waste
- 254 pounds of greenhouse gases
- 55 pounds of petroleum-based phenol
- 22 pounds of natural gas-based methanol
Original PaperStone, with a 50% post-consumer recycled content product (versus 100% for PaperStone Certified), saves a similar amount of phenol, methanol and 50% of the water, energy, solid waste and greenhouse gases listed above.
Data is obtained by using an EPA energy use/savings calculator.
A version of the calculator and user guides are available from the Internet
at: http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf
/content/ActionsWasteToolsRecon.html
