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  reduce, re-use, recycle!

  I read the article with interest, scanning for the number one imperative for reducing waste in the office: REDUCE the amount of paper you churn out in the first place. Consider before you hit "print". Do you really need to print that email? That draft? That meeting agenda? Or at least make sure that your print job isn't going to run onto an extra page just for a couple of lines. Take a moment to format, folks! It astounds me how trigger-happy we can be with the print button. So much for the paperless office.

  And how about the second part of the little ditty? RE-USE: set up a box where staff can drop one-sided scrap paper to be re-used. Dedicate one tray in the printer for this purpose and educate your colleagues. (You might want to advise that confidential papers don't make their way into that box.)

  Finally, you can RECYCLE that paper, once it's been used to its fullest. I know, it takes more time, and it's going against the tide, fussing with bits of paper and badgering your colleagues. (Doesn't she have anything better to do?). But when the Ents come to wreak havoc, they may have mercy on you.On Taking the wrinkles out of paper recycling posted 3 years, 9 months ago 8 Responses