How to save paper in the office

    How to save paper in the office

    Some useful tips to become more responsible in the office by optimizing paper consumption to save wood, reduce energy waste and solid waste pollution

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    Every day you come into contact with countless paper documents. Surround yourself in the office with papers, files and charts. It is written and printed. In color or black and white. And in the meantime, precisely every two seconds, an area of ​​forest the size of a football field is destroyed. We read our file, we send it to print, we realize that there was an error, we crumple it up and throw it away. And again, faster and faster the noise of saws cutting another tree enters our head. It's time to act, enough waste, just this unsustainable lightness of being a consumerist and not at all ecological.





    Here are some suggestion to become more responsible in the consumption of paper in the office:

    Act and react

    You are in the office. Next to you, your colleague throws the paper in the bin without recycling it. In the heat of hell you realize that no one, starting with your manager, recycle paper. The incessant noise of torn sheets and printers in action haunts you. Suddenly the flash of genius.

    Browsing the web you discover on a page of the "Environmental Defense Fund“The Paper Calculator, a tool that helps quantify the benefits of using ecological paper, showing the environmental impacts of different documents throughout their life cycle. It is really the case to show it to the director!

    Using less paper, and increasing the recycled paper will be possible save wood, reduce the waste of energy, and the pollution of solid waste. For example, converting your annual order of 100 tons of plain printing paper into recycled paper will save you approx 173 tons of wood, thousand of greenhouse gas emissions and toxic pollutants in the water and in the air and hundreds of kilos of solid waste.

    In your little one

    Before printing a document, check his preview. In this way, many errors are avoided, which may have gone unnoticed during the page layout phase, and save money, paper and ink. How you do it? Don't worry, just open the document you want to print and select from the File menu "Print Preview". A window will show your document, exactly how it will print. After all the checks, by simply clicking on the printer icon on the top left, you are ready to print.



    Green software

    We have already recommended several times the use of ecological fonts and printers without cartridges. Now is the time to invite you to use the greener software on the market. Fineprint, for example, is a program of another caliber, which allows you to print multiple pages on one sheet, managing their recognition borders, sorting, margins and adding watermark custom.



    The great ability of Fineprint is to allow you to print front and back even to printers without this function. The program, in fact, first prints the odd pages, then the even ones. Obviously we will be the ones to turn the sheets in the printer. Before the revolt of the machines (hopefully ecological) we can still do something with our hands.

    Alberto Maria Vedova

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