SAVE TREES – build a paperless world
We understand that for many this transition away from paper may be painful, but it is a necessary step toward a better and more productive life. Paper is a habit, best broken and many of the reasons for this should be obvious.
What paper can/not do
- Paper Documents can only be in one place at a time.
- Paper must be read.
- You cannot do an accurate keyword search on paper.
The list goes on and on and goes to the very health of the planet.
When we look around our room we find many traces of paper, some books, a few magazines, some printer paper, and perhaps a poster on the wall.
Although we cannot drastically stop this paper usage as modern life is completely surrounded with all types of paper products from packaging boxes to tissue papers, what we can do is, stop paper wastage, use recycled paper, use less paper in our office and institutions.
Each person in the United States uses 749 pounds of paper every year. In fact world consumption of paper has grown four hundred percent in the last 40 years. Now nearly 4 billion trees or 35% of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent.
As this is the age of computers and virtual files lets make our organisations almost paperless, lets believe in email, online forms, PDF and word documents.
We are looking forward to a near-paperless world where we won’t want magazines, students won’t need textbooks, and paper forms will be redundant. It is a vision we have been told about before the paperless office was supposed to have been the norm by now.
In the NEW world we will all carry information on tablet computers, which can be held like a clipboard, with a flat screen on the front. iPad and kindles are here to stay.
Forms, text books, magazines and newspapers will all go digital, Bill Gates says, with a childlike eagerness for the possibilities that this heralds. “There’s a group of students that are going to college during this decade who, because they use the tablet in college, will, as they go into the workforce, think about the magazines they want to read and it will be obvious to them that digital is far superior,” he says.
“The encyclopedia was the first book to go. It’s way cheaper, way more up-to-date. It doesn’t smell as good, but otherwise we’re a winner.”
What’s certain is that with so much of our daily lives dependent on the material, paper is here to stay. Even email and the Internet haven’t yet slowed this demand.
So we cannot completely ignore the use of paper but as research advances and the environmental impact lessens, perhaps we’ll be able to live comfortably with paper for the next six thousand years provided we use paper wisely and try to go digital and paperless whenever possible.
What You Can Do
- Use cloth towels and napkins
- Read documents on your computer and print sheets on both sides.
- Recycle boxes, junk mail and cardboard packaging. Get removed from catalog lists
- Always Use recycled paper.
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good article,from now onwards i will make sure that in my house no paper is wasted,and we use more recycled papers.thank you
Great article… and don’t forget the benefits that planting a tree will have on the environment. Each one will soak up 20kgs of CO2 every year and put enough Oxygen back in the atmosphere to support 2 people.