Reducing Paper Use and Wastage
PENCINTA ALAM MARCH 2013 REDUCING PAPER USE AND WASTAGE By Wong Ee Lynn (gl.mnselangor@yahoo.com) (Photo credits: Pyo Ng) Even if all paper products were recycled, there would still be a need for paper to be made from virgin resources, as individual paper fibres can only be recycled a finite number of times (generally 5-10 times). As such, paper waste prevention is the most preferable means of reducing the environmental impacts associated with both paper manufacturing (including the demands on land and forest resources) and paper recycling. Here are some of the most important ways of reducing paper waste: AT HOME AND IN YOUR DAILY LIFE: 1. Terminate subscriptions to junk mail, catalogues, magazines, newsletters and newspapers in print form and subscribe to electronic publications instead. Only print out articles that you will need to refer to again, or better yet, copy and paste them into a Microsoft Word (or other word processing programmes) document and save ...