Save paper
Paper is the number one item used and wasted in offices. It's worth shopping around for recycled paper, stock your default printer tray with it. If someone does need a top-quality printout, they then have to make the extra effort to select the paper tray holding the high-quality paper.
Depending upon the layout of your offices it might make sense to have a central print room, where all print jobs go, (and are collected.) Not only will this be easier to maintain, but will almost certainly reduce the amount of paper used.
A lot of good quality paper gets used when giving handouts at presentations or conferences. An alternative might be to make your presentations available on the Web, or perhaps a on a USB memory stick, giving attendees the option to print it out themselves. Memory sticks are cheap to buy and valuable for many other things. Although it is debatable whether memory sticks are on the whole 'greener' to use than paper, a change in practice like this does throw light on the subject, and on the related issue of paperless working.
It may also be worthwhile to add a recycling bin for office paper.
Energy-saving tips - how to save paper
- Only print when you really need as this saves energy, paper and ink
- print double-sided to save paper
- recycle your waste paper, and use recycled paper
- select ‘draft’ or ‘economy’ settings when you print to save ink
- refill or recycle empty printer cartridges
Save energy, save money & help save the planet
