- 1 ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets
- 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets
- Average cost of monochrome printed page .67 pence
- Average UK office worker prints 38 pages per day, which is at 232 working days per annum is 8,816
- Average of 29% of which is wasteful printing creates 2,556 pages per year of unnecessary paper waste
- For every user in your organisation, based on these findings, in printing terms alone generates 61.34 KG CO2 requiring 142 kWh of energy to be consumed to supply the paper
- Printer Ink is one of the most expensive liquids to purchase. To fill an Olympic sized swimming pool with ink would cost around £11.8 billion
- One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources
- The Pulp and Paper industry is one of the more destructive and energy consuming industries in the modernised world
- One tonne of paper uses over 19,000 gallons of water
- In order for us to consume our fair share of the world's wood resources we would need to reduce our consumption by 73%.
- The UK is the fifth highest consumer of paper and board in the world.
- On average, each of us consumes 198 kg of paper and board per year.
- London offices churn out three and a quarter million tonnes of office and printing paper a year.
- The US conservation pressure group Conservatree has calculated that on average one ton of uncoated non-recycled printing and office paper uses 24 trees.
- Paper accounts for 42% of industrial forest use.
These facts together with your stationery bill, clearly demonstrates how printing in the workplace is such a vital area for the implementation of waste reduction solutions. GreenPrint is an easy to use system, which can drastically reduce the amount of unnecessary printing carried out - saving time, money and the environment!
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