Eco Calculator / LEED Credit Information

CaneFields Sustainable Paper Eco Calculator
This simple tool enables any business to easily calculate the environmental benefits achievable by switching to Canefields Sugarcane Copy Paper. All you need to use our ecocalculator is the total number of 10-ream cartons of copy paper your business consumes annually. Calculate the difference you make, and incorporate the data into your Sustainability Initiative.
Canefields Environmental Sugarcane Paper is made from sustainable, recovered agricultural waste fiber.
Our manufacturing facility is landfill free, powered by renewable energies, and purifies / reuses wastewater.
Canefields Sugarcane Paper is certified CARBON BALANCED, including delivery to our distribution centers.
We are FSC certified, ISO-14001 certified, and registered with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Background: Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. LEED continuing certification is obtained by meeting standards in a number of categories. If you have a LEED Building, you are well aware of the various things you have to track to do this. Canefields can help. Our eco-friendly sugarcane copy paper and paper based office supplies are manufactured at a facility that is FSC certified, Rainforest Alliance Certified, and ISO-14001 certified. Canefields products are manufactured using 80% discarded sugarcane fiber that is recovered from the waste stream. Our high quality copy paper and paper based office supplies are recyclable with standard office waste.

If you are a LEED certified building, you have to have a Sustainable Purchasing Policy put in place to "To reduce the environmental and air quality impacts of the materials acquired for use in the operations and maintenance of buildings." and "To facilitate the reduction of ongoing waste and toxins generated by building occupants and building operations that are hauled to and disposed of in landfills or incineration facilities."

Sustainable Purchasing Policy for ongoing consumables guidelines:

Purchases contain at least 10% post consumer and/or 20% postindustrial material.

Purchases contain at least 50% rapidly renewable materials.

Purchases contain at least 50% materials harvested and processed or extracted and processed within 500 miles of the project.

Purchases consist of at least 50% paper products certified by a forest certification scheme that is recognized after evaluation against the USGBC Forest Certification Benchmark.

Batteries are rechargeable. Solid Waste Management policy has to cover ongoing consumables:

Reuse, recycle or compost 50% of the ongoing consumables waste stream (by weight or volume).

Types of Products This Applies to:

Printing or Copy Paper, Notebooks, Notepads, and Envelopes. (other paper based office supplies may also apply)

Canefields Example: Canefields sugarcane copy paper and paper based office supplies meets the LEED ongoing consumables guidelines on these points:

FSC Certified / Rainforest Alliance certified manufacturer

80% recovered agricultural waste fiber that would otherwise be landfilled or burnt

100% renewable materials (80% sugarcane waste / 20% certified plantation fiber)

Easily recyclable

So How Does Canefields Help You?

Each purchase can receive credit for each sustainable criterion met, so if a LEED certified entity purchases $1000 of Canefields copy paper and/or paper based office supplies, they get credit for the following:

$1000 Forest certification scheme certified

$1000 80% post consumer / post industrial waste

$1000 100% renewable materials

$1000 100% recyclable

= $4000 of total credit toward your LEED Sustainable Purchasing Policy and Solid Waste Management Points.

Please refer to our “EcoCalculator” that quickly and easily allows you to calculate the dollar amounts involved specific to your annual copy paper procurement.

Additionally, Canefields sugarcane waste fiber paper products are independently third party certified CARBON BALANCED by our partners at TerraPass. Canefields is evaluating possible LEED credit opportunities for this.

*It is the responsibility of each company’s LEED Project Team to evaluate this interpretation of LEED policy, and to verify their own compliance.