For your Earth Day enjoyment, consider this:  before the introduction of email and the internet there were letters, copies of everything that needed to be recorded and copies of copies of important documents. They were all printed on paper.  Now any information you need can be found on the internet database instead of thousands of topics and pieces of information being housed in a set of encyclopedias.  All of that mail correspondence expended in gas by the USPS has dwindled down to a trickling stream in the eyes of the post office who is considering stopping mail delivery on Saturdays all-together.  So instead of chopping down trees to create pamphlets, newspaper articles and ads agencies are turning to online resources such as company websites, micro-sites and online ads to reach out to consumers. 

Re-Use, Reduce and Be Resourceful!

Other paper reducing habits you can employ to be a happy and earth-saving company:

  • File Sharing Sites- Stop printing everything off!  Instead use a sharing website to collaborate with documents and projects
  • Newsletters can be sent through emails or posted on a press page instead of being mailed to everyone
  • Use a projector for meetings instead of printing meeting details for everyone, then email the notes so everyone still gets their own copy.
  • Re-use paper that you have printed on by making into scratch paper.  Everyone loves to doodle and jot quick notes, now you don't even have to buy sticky notes for them!
  • Print in duplex-  by printing on both sides of a sheet of paper you can reduce your consumption by half.
  • Recycle- This is an easy one, just do it. 

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