Fenland College: Green Action Plan

by Kat Kozak

approximately 175

classrooms with 26

different subject

areas

3500 students

and 300 staff

3 printers per

classroom / 2

printers per subject

area

=

x 65

• Printing practices

• New equipment

• Re-manufactured

cartridges

• 100% post consumer

recycled paper

• Recycling

• Ink-efficient font

• Digital storage solutions

• Printing Balance

18, 266 kWh of energy 272, 956 CO energy and paper emissions 137, 547 kg of paper £184, 185 of energy and paper costs

power off every day

pull printing

duplex printing

HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One

This award-winning ENERGY STAR® qualified

multifunction series offers several features to

reduce paper waste, including automatic

two-sided printing and copying, a junk fax

blocker,1 and the ability to fax to a network

folder or email and scan to a computer.

Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) recognized the

HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series

with its award for Outstanding Achievement in

Energy Efficiency. In fact, the HP Officejet

Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series uses up to 50%

less energy than color laser printers in its

class.

Help reduce the environmental impact of every page you print. Use up to 70%

less supplies and packaging by weight compared with color laser printers.

The HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series also delivers professional color

printing at up to 50% lower cost per page than color laser printers in its class.

HP Color LaserJet CM4540 MFP

This ENERGY STAR® qualified multifunction

powerhouse doesn't just combine printing,

scanning, copying, and faxing into one package.

It also has HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology, for

energy savings of up to 50%. A built-in image-

preview function avoids waste from printing

mistakes, and HP FutureSmart Firmware allows

you to easily update and extend capabilities,

lowering the cost of future replacement.

“TonerGreen is an eco-friendly printer supplies retailer that has been

providing environmental responsible printing solutions since April 2009

under the name TonerforEarth.com. Its main product line includes

U.S.-made remanufactured toner cartridges and remanufactured inkjet

cartridges that are highly compatible to replace printer cartridges in

printers under popular brand names such as HP, Brother, Canon, Dell,

Lexmark and Xerox.”

“Echo Paper is adding to our natural resources one case at a time by

planting a tree for every case of paper sold. In addition to not cutting

down trees when our 100% post-consumer waste papers are made,

we're putting trees back in the ground. When you purchase paper from

the Echo Paper Store, you are not only getting a sustainable paper

product made of 100% post-consumer waste, but you are also helping

the environment.”

“HP produces low-carbon solutions and energy-efficient products,

using safer materials and greener packaging to lower our customers’

environmental footprints. Our design leadership and technical

innovations in reducing the environmental impact of

technology have been widely recognized.”

using 20 cases of

100% post-consumer waste

rather than non-recycled paper

saves the following resources

13 x

273 x

+ enough energy to power an average household for 37 days

+ 18.5 thirty-two gallon garbage cans

+ 1,039 pounds of greenhouse gases (equivalent of carbon

sequestered by about 13 tree seedlings grown for ten years)

14-year-old Suvir Mirchandani was trying to think of ways to cut waste and save

money at his Pittsburgh-area middle school as a science-fair project. Interested

in applying computer science to promote environmental sustainability, Suvir

decided he was going to figure out if there was a better way to minimize the

constant flurry of paper and ink used for the handouts he got every day.

Collecting random samples of teachers' handouts, Suvir concentrated on the

most commonly used characters (e, t, a, o and r). First, he charted how often

each character was used in four different typefaces: Garamond, Times New

Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans. Then he measured how much ink was

used for each letter, using a commercial tool called APFill® Ink Coverage

Software.

Next he enlarged the letters, printed them and cut them out on cardstock paper

to weigh them to verify his findings. He did three trials for each letter, graphing

the ink usage for each font.

From this analysis, Suvir figured out that by using Garamond with its thinner

strokes, his school district could reduce its ink consumption by 24% and

realized that by making the change his school could save as much as $21,000

annually.

In case of the Fenland College, choosing the right font could translate to saving

at least £10,000 annually.

EchoPaper:

https://www.echopaperstore.com/plant-a-tree-

program.php

Suvir Mirchandani’s Font Story:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-

saving-typeface-garamond-schools/

Class Sizes Study:

http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/whyclasssizematt

ers

HP Carbon Footprint Calculator:

http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/ecological-printing-

solutions/carbon-footprint-calc.html

TonerGreen:

http://www.tonergreen.com/about-us