In the USA, 4.6 million tonnes of paper consumed annually for office copy. Consider that making, using and disposing of that amount of paper:
• required enough wood to build more than 1 million average homes,
• used the same amount of water as flows over Niagara Falls in one full day,
• required more energy than is used in all the households in Los Angeles for a full year, and
• generated more than 5 million tonnes of solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
The point of this is not to say that copying and printing are terrible, shameful things we must never do. The goal is to drive home the fact that reducing your printing means both financial benefits to your company as well as environmental benefits for everyone.
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