Dear Ian Scott,

Thank you for your ongoing commitment to EMERGE Recycling and the promotion of the 3Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - within your business. Over the  course of last year, January-December 2005, your company, Taurus helped to  recycle 0.17 tonnes of paper, reducing the amount of materials and energy needlessly consumed.

So what does that mean?

 For every one tonne of paper, that's 50 of our bags collected from your
 company, it helps save:

• 16 average size trees, which would have been used to make new paper.
• 4100kwh of electricity. This is roughly the equivalent of leaving a 100W light bulb on for over 4 1/2 years, or vacuuming non-stop for over 9 months!
• 31,780 litres of water, which is 151 baths!  Paper-making is an  incredibly water intensive process.
• Saves 3.01 m3 of landfill space.  Landfill tax is increasing.  The less we use, the less we spend, and the less which will be diverted to incinerators, not to mention the positive effect on our environment.
• 1725 litres of diesel, used just to process the trees and ship the
   paper to the customer. This could fuel a city bus for over 600 miles.

As you can see, your contribution has been invaluable and we at EMERGE hope to continue assisting your company in making these crucial efforts.

So thank you again from EMERGE Recycling.

 Regards,

 Business Services Team
 EMERGE Recycling
 New Smithfield Market, Units E1 to E5
 Whitworth Street East
 Openshaw
 Manchester
 M11 2WJ
 www.emergemanchester.co.uk

 EMERGE is a Manchester-based social enterprise promoting the idea and practice of the 3Rs: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE