Save The Environment and Money - Print Less

Some startling facts from http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/wrr/factoid.htm .

• Printing documents to read them is very expensive and it also harms our environment.
• Americans use 700 trillion sheets of copy paper each year, (that is about 10,000 sheets per office worker!). Every ton of paper not printed will save about 17 trees.
• It is shown that deskjet ink costs as much per ounce as gold, The Enquirer , July 25th, 2005. To calculate how much you can save by printing less.

The above facts shows printing can be expensive both on the pocket and the environment. A way to cut the cost and save the environment is to print less. Beside printing less, the other steps to save money and the environment is to :

1. Use recycled ink cartridges
2. Use recycled paper
3. Do lots of print previews
4. Use software to read your document instead of printing out
5. Print in Draft Mode

A note of recycled paper. Fact established from the epa website showed that:-

• Producing recycled paper requires about 60 percent of the energy used to make paper from virgin wood pulp.
• Manufacturing one ton of office and computer paper with recycled paper stock can save between 3,000 and 4,000 kilowatt hours over the same ton of paper made with virgin wood products.
• Preventing 1 ton of paper waste saves between 15 and 17 mature trees.

Well some facts to think about and consider before you hit the print button. So go for green printing and it's green printing that I think makes a lot of sense...green wise off course.