Environment

Bidding for a Greener Future
Digital tools, environmental impact

Since the beginning, Bradford’s has been all about leveraging digital tools not only to enhance your browsing experience but also to keep our costs down. This approach lets us pour those savings back into eco-friendlier marketing strategies that not only increase our clients’ ROI but also help the planet. Thanks to choosing digital over print, we've managed to save over 45,000 trees by ditching traditional printed catalogs for our auctions. But we've realized that just stopping the presses isn't enough—we need to step up our game.

Digital Tools
45,609 trees saved... and counting! The math behind our efforts Tree
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Produces 10,000 Sheets of paper
Book
Therefore, 1 tree replaces about 50 auction catalogs
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If Bradford's printed one catalog for each of our
35,000 Registered bidders
this would use
7,000,000 sheets of paper
per auction

700 trees saved every single auction by using digital catalogs instead of printing

Bradford's
2,644,378 lifetime auction bidders
528,875,600 sheets of paper saved
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52,888 trees saved By Using Digital Catalogs

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About Our Partner, OneTreePlanted

One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and environmental organizations to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. Reforestation helps to restore forests that have been degraded by human activities or environmental disasters, provide jobs for social impact, and restore biodiversity habitat. Many projects have overlapping objectives that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

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