Congratulations to our partner Better World Books, awarded the US Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 WasteWise Gold Award for Paper Reduction! Better World Books is a socially conscious online retailer of new and used books. BWB doesn't throw away books; any used books it can’t sell are either sent directly to one of its nonprofit literacy partners or are recycled. According to their blog, this practice has saved more than 32 million books from landfills while now raising over $7.8 million in funding for literacy and education initiatives around the world through the sale of those books. “Every year, almost a million tons of books are thrown away. We’re proud of our company’s accomplishments reducing that tremendous and unnecessary waste,” says CEO David Murphy. “By moving discarded books out of landfills and back into the reading cycle, we’re not only helping the environment, but also raising money for good causes and promoting literacy. We are honored to be recognized by the EPA and to receive this WasteWise Gold award.” Better World Books also ships books CarbonFree® through its shipping partnership with Carbonfund.org. Our partnership has reduced over 5,300 metric tons of carbon emissions, supporting third-party validated carbon reduction projects. To put this in perspective, that is equivalent to the carbon sequestered annually by over 1,100 acres of pine forest, or the carbon emissions from roughly 600,000 gallons of gasoline consumed! Congrats Better World Books!! Click here to visit Better World Books.