“Fewer trees will die and less ink will be squirted, but that is not her primary motivation, she says. It is that everyone—clients and staff—is sick of paper.”

“Paper is a wonderful product but its ecological impact on our planet is already too great and it is growing too quickly. We should all support initiatives which recognise the need to contain this impact such as:
* limiting the overall consumption of paper
* reducing the reliance on virgin fibre from trees
* urging social responsibility in pulp and paper manufacture
* being alert to the potential threats to our environment in the production of wood pulp
* demanding the clean production of both pulp and paper These are not new proposals: they have been advocated by various environmental organisations for many years. It’s time that we all took them seriously.
R C Viner
Commercial Director
The Premier Paper Group”

“By designing and printing trimmer flyers, Loblaw will be saving 5,200 metric tons of paper and more than 82,000 trees destined for paper mills each year. Continuing with its environmental ethic, Loblaw in partnership with Tree Canada, will plant 82,332 trees across Canada next spring in five regions: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and British Columbia. The tree species will vary due to putting the “right tree in the right place.”

“PaperSavingSoftware.com outlines a variety of ways AXIAR Green, paper saving software, is used to reduce the amount of paper consumed network-wide, including: automatically converting print to PDF, which reduces the number of jobs printed; automatically setting draft print mode, which reduces the amount of toner used and the amount of packaging required for toner shipping; automatically printing duplex, which reduces the amount of paper used by up to 50%; automatically distributing digital documents, which reduces printing and eliminates mailing costs; ensured print job delivery, which reduces the amount of wasted and redundant prints; and digital forms, which reduces the amount of paper-intensive pre-printed forms used by organizations.”

“Envirowise, a government-funded program providing advice on sustainability to UK businesses, has identified five types of “printing culprits”: The Pointless Printer, who prints everything just because they like to have a hard copy of all documents, even e-mails, The Competitive Printer, who thinks that the bigger the pile of “crucial” documents on their desk, the more important they will look, The “Old School” Printer, who feels that they can’t possibly comment on an e-mail request without printing it off to read it, and is incapable of editing documents on screen, The Hasty Printer, who presses “Print” before checking the length of the document, and then stands over the printer looking pained, as though the printer has operated on its own initiative, The Sneaky Printer, who is acutely aware of over-printing but can’t live without paper, and makes furtive dashes back and forth to collect what is possibly personal printing without being caught, The one we should be aspiring to, of course, is the Pedestal Printer, who prints double-sided, on recycled paper, only prints what is essential and likes to share their documents with the rest of the team. According to Envirowise, office workers in the UK can get through 22 sheets of paper a day, with several studies suggesting that much of this is wasted printing that goes straight in the bin.”