Paper Consumption
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Video: Paperless Facts |
Video: Reducing Office Paper
Did you know that to make paper:
- 1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree
- 5.4 kg of CO2 is released into the atmosphere
- and ... for every 3 sheets of paper, 1 litre of
water is used in the process
- a single tonne of paper takes up about five cubic
metres of landfill
- due to paper printing, 18 million printer cartridges
end up in Australia's landfill every year
The pulp and paper industry is the single largest
consumer of water used in industrial activities in OECD
countries and is the third greatest industrial greenhouse
gas emitter, after the chemical and steel industries (OECD
Environmental Outlook, p. 218)
Each year, Australians use 1.7 million tonnes of printing
and writing paper. At an estimated 24 trees per tonne, this
amount of paper uses up the equivalent of tens of millions
of trees.
A big part of this problem is the huge amount of paper
that people use in the workplace. A 2009 audit showed that
each government employee uses an average of 9300 sheets of
office paper every year. Paper waste is the single biggest
component of solid waste in the workplace. Source: http://paperlessalliance.com.au |
