If you know WHY, now know HOW!

Saving paper in educational institutions and workplaces

• Use both sides of notebook paper. Avoid leaving white space as   much as you can.
• Don't do silly things with paper like making planes, throwing it in your classmates' heads and so on. Not only is it wasting paper, such behaviour can get you in trouble with school staff.
• Write small, (but legible) so the paper will last longer.
• Educate your classmates and other students on ways to conserve and reuse paper: posters, "Tip of the Day" in the daily bulletin, whatever works.
• Recycle clean but used paper into scratch paper for teachers.
• Get businesses to donate paper. Workplaces often have reams of  paper goods that are not used, such as outdated letterhead paper, envelopes of the wrong size, and outdated signs. Ask local businesses, the workplaces of parents, and the like, to donate these paper goods to your school to be reused.
• Don't write on random pieces of paper to remember things. (They  are too easily lost anyway). Use the  text-message or note application on your cell phone.
• Don't use the stapled notebooks like the ones at school. After you've filled out more than half of the notebook, you can't rip out an empty sheet without ripping out a written one too. Consider using  a spiral notebook.
• Use both sides of every piece of paper.  Find out how to make double sided copies when you photocopy.  If you have a piece of paper that is printed on one side only, use the back as rough paper  before you finally put it in the recycling box.
• Always tick the box to say that you do not want to be sent marketing material whenever you apply for anything by post or online.
• To stop unwanted free newspapers and leaflets you could phone the companies concerned but a small polite sign on your door asking that no circulars or free newspapers are delivered will probably be more effective.
• Old magazines will always be accepted gratefully by many organizations (and by your friends!). Donate them to hospitals, GP surgeries, dentists, libraries or anywhere with a waiting room.
• Buy books second hand or borrow books and magazines from your library/friends.
  
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• Use unbleached and uncoloured paper.
• Buy products in bulk to minimize packaging .
• Print on Both Sides
• Use a stick on label on the first page of a fax instead of a cover sheet.
• Get rid of paper files and folders- put it all online 
• Use the back side of old paper for scratch pads 
• Recycle all paper instead of shredding it or disposing it.
• Ask to be removed from mailing lists, or suggest the system of electronic mailing list.
  
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• Pay your bills online!!!
• Bookmark pages online, and work off the screen, instead of printing them out
  (But if you really need to print something out, most printer software allows you to print multiple “pages” to a single piece of paper – the computer will shrink the page down, and print 2, 4 or more on a single sheet of paper – this alone can halve or quarter your printer paper use.)
• A lot of magazines now run companion websites with similar content – just updated more frequently. You still might pay a subscription fee, but rather than a magazine being printed (and eventually thrown out), you get a password to access their website.
  
  - Erma Frank