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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 The Impact of Paper Production in Our
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 for 3 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 total
economic output

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 The Impact of Paper Production in Our
Environment

• Approx. 324 L. of
water is used to
produce 1 KG of
paper.
• Average worldwide
annual paper
consumption is 48
KG per person

80,500 A4 sheets make up a tree

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 Why Are We Facing This Global Problem?

It can Is related
• be paper to
waste related to:
Behavior
– Behavior/attitude
– Knowledge or
– Skills

It can be related to Knowledge

It can be related to Skills

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 In Our Office

Can we ???

How?
– Change our behavior?
– Improve our knowledge?
– Improve our skills?

Can we reduce Can we reuse

paper waste? 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 minor
hand 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

Letter
A4 Size
e.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 Printer’s Options

Need one page, but

print the whole
document.
Need one copy, but
print many copies

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 Always Consider Printer’s Options

Layout
• Paper Size
• Portrait versus
Landscape

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 Always Consider Printer’s Options

• The documents needs

to be printed double
side, but the single
side is selected.

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Let’s Prevent Paper
Waste

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