Pause Before You PrintConserving Paper and the Environment

Claudia Girrbach

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Pause Before You Print

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Meet Paul

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He was frustrated by all the wasted paper

Paul started to track how much paper was used

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One Day

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One Year

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Paul’s Team: Paper Used Annually

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Paul’s company of 18,000 employees …

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… Enough paper that if stacked would reach Mt. Everest

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Our individual paper use seems trivial, but collectively …

One person One team One company

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Has a large impact

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Paul figured that we could do better

He recommended tools to help us reduce paper use

Anytime / anywhere access to documents, green templates, print tracking

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Together, we can make a mountain into a molehill

Our colleagues reduced print by 64% as part of the print smart program

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Paul suggests: Go paper-free

Eliminate paper for meetings, reports, drafts (read aloud to proof-read)

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When Printing Make Every Page Count

Print Preview , Use Green Templates, Pledge and Track Your Reduction

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Join Paul and Pause Before You Print

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