How much paper in the world is spent daily,annually? Tons, tens and hundreds of tons! According to experts, paper is spent most of all not by students and students, but by employees of modern offices. It also revealed the largest reserves of its savings. In support of the call of public activists to take care of natural resources, the International Day without paper appeared.
What holiday is it?
There are many special holidays in the world -Day of the physician, Day of the accountant, Day of the miner, Day of the teacher and other days which are devoted to professionals of the business. More recently, another holiday has been added to the list - International Day without paper. The story of its appearance begins in 2010, when the Association of AIMM came out in support of the idea of saving natural resources. To save paper is to save the forest. Since then, the world's leading companies from various sectors of the economy annually hold an International Paperless Day every fourth Thursday of October.
How many cubic meters of wood passes through the printer every day?
To make 100 packs of A4 paper,It takes about one cubic meter of wood. How fast are these packs consumed? Even a small office draws up a couple of thousand documents a year - contracts, invoices, reports, invoices, registers, and so on. How many sheets go to 1 document, and how many drafts were spent before getting the finishing option? It is difficult to calculate even approximately, but the answer immediately suggests itself: a lot of paper is wasted, and with it trees, electricity, and water.
International Day without a paper is precisely what should bring public attention to this issue. The purpose of the meeting is to call for the rational and conscious use of natural resources.
How to find reserves of savings?
Recent statistics indicatethat paper use worldwide has increased by 20%. It is difficult to say whether this is due to an increase in economic activity or an increase in negligence. In any case, those who invented the International Day without paper, advocate such ways to save it:
- Save on drafts. Before you print the final version of the document, carefully read it on the computer.
- Use preview mode before printing. This will help reduce the number of sheets used by formatting.
- Let documents print with smaller print.
- Use minimum spacing and narrow fields.
- Print on both sides.
- Implement an electronic document management system at the enterprise. Instructions, production flow charts, orders, orders and other internal documents can be entrusted to electronic media.
- Training of new employees, advanced training of experienced workers and testing can be successfully carried out in electronic form.
- Regular mail can be replaced by e-mail.
- Place catchy slogans near the printer and copier: "Think twice before you print!" or "How much paper did you throw away today?"
Bright minds will be able to continue this list by inventing their own effective paper saving methods.
Ways to support action
Those who have never participated in the action canBecome a member of the 2015 International Paperless Day program. It is very simple and completely free. It is enough just to tell your colleagues and business partners about such an event, and on the fourth Thursday of October to remind everyone by e-mail that today is International Day without a paper.
It would be very good if every office employee and every person always carefully and consciously treated natural resources, and not just on holidays.
