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Marine Tourism Best Management PracticesPeople For Puget Sound • pugetsound.orgAdditional Resources:• Puget Sound Action Team: www.psat.wa.gov or 800-54-SOUND (See LID section fortechniques, suppliers and Puget Sound case studies)• Washington State Department of Ecology: www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/stormwateror (360) 407-6444• Seattle Public Utilities and Natural Drainage Systems: www.seattle.gov/util/About_SPUor (206) 684-3000. You can find plant, architectural drawings and otherinformation about the Street Edge Alternative (SEA) project in the Broadviewneighborhood in Seattle• NW Native Plant Society: www.wnps.org/nurserylist.html and (206) 527-3210 or(888) 288-8022I. Waste Reduction and Management:(a) Paper Use Reduction. Our consumption of paper is driving the destruction offorests all over the world, including ancient forests. Intact forest habitat, particularlyancient old-growth forests, provides unparalleled air cleansing and filtering. ThePacific NW is home to one of the last intact old growth forest ecosystems in theworld.These forest ecosystems;• regulate climate throughout the world, including production of oxygen, soilstabilization and health• provides medicine and habitat for both people and an incredibly diverse arrayof species and;• prevents erosion. Erosion- which occurs when forest habitats are severelyimpaired or destroyed — causes flooding, ruins fish habitat, increasestemperature, and displaces people and cause disease. When paper is made,hundreds of chemicals are used, including elemental chlorine.Chlorine use and production produces dioxins and organochlorines, bothof which are persistent in the environment and taken up in the food chain.The harbor seals in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin have very high levels ofboth dioxins and furans, as well as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs (seeecy.wa.gov/biblio/0201002.html for the entire indicator report). Stay tuned for the fall2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Indicators report on EPA Region10’s web site.Re-think when and how you use paper:• (1) Be more efficient with the paper you do use by copying double sided (2)Reduce font size (3) Use more print to cover a printed page to reduce dead38