prevention paper waste

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Prevention of Paper Waste

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Why Prevention of Paper Waste?

Is it important?

Does it have any impact in our environment?

Right!!!

Now, Let talk about the impact of it on the environment !

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The Impact of Paper Production in Our

Environment

Average per capita paper use in the USA is 333 KG.

Average per capital paper use worldwide is 48 KG

Paper manufacturing is the 3rd largest user of fossil

fuels worldwide The US uses 25% of the world's paper products115

billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal

computers

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Environment

10,000 trees are cut down annually in China to make holiday

cards

It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York

Times.

Every tree provides oxygen enough for3 people to breathe. Recycling one ton of paper saves 682.5 gallons of oil, 7,000

gallons of water, 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.

Today, 90% of paper pulp is made of wood.

Paper manufacture is estimated to account for nearly 13%of

total wood use, and represents one per cent of the world's totaleconomic output

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Environment

Approx. 324 L. of

water is used to

produce 1 KG of

paper. Average worldwide

annual paper

consumption is 48

KG per person

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80,500 A4 sheets make up a tree


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Why Are We Facing This Global Problem?

Is paper waste related to:

Behavior/attitude

Knowledge or

Skills

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It can be related to Knowledge

It can be related to Skills

It can be related to Behavior


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In Our Office

Can we ???

How? Change our behavior?

Improve our knowledge?

Improve our skills?

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Can we reduce

paper waste?

Can we reuse

paper?


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Yes, We can Reduce Paper Waste!

Using printing machines

Practice preventive printer/copier maintenance

Fill printer/copier trays correctly

Post paper reduction reminders by printers and copiers

Creating Documents

Format standard forms for paper reduction

Shorten documents

Single space the text of final reports

Allow internal documents to be circulated with legible minorhand corrections rather than retyping drafts

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Yes, We can Reduce Paper Waste!

Printing Improvements

Set computer defaults to print double-sided

Preview documents before printing

Select and print only the pages you need

Adopt a "double-sided" policy

Practice "Think Before You Copy" Attitude

Minor hand written corrections are ok

Print only the amount you need. Limit the distribution of

correspondence and reports to those who really need "hard

copies." Provide one copy for several readers rather than

providing multiple copies

Use your word processor's Spell Check and Print Preview

functions to check spelling, layout, and page breaks before

printing a job

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Yes, We can Reuse Paper Waste!

Reuse

Provide trays to collect and reuse one-sided paper

Provide trays to collect and reuse papers

Reduce

Send information electronically

Reduce unwanted printed documents (agenda of the

meetings, PowerPoint slides etc)

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Select the Right Paper size

A4 SizeLettere.g. One page file goes to two

pages

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Prevent moving a column in next page

while having space in a single page

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Consider Page Breaks

Having page breaks without no reason increases the blank pages which causes

paper waste.

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Select the Right Printer

Selecting the wrong

printer causes lose of

printed papers

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Always Consider Printers Options

Need one page, but

print the whole

document.

Need one copy, but

print many copies

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Layout

PaperSize

Portrait versus

Landscape

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The documents needs

to be printed double

side, but the single

side is selected.

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Lets Prevent Paper

Waste

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