I Just Gotta Tell Ya
- 5% of the worldwide wood harvest ends up as paper
- The United States threw out 20% of all the paper made in the world
- One fifth of all the tropical rainforests in the world disappeared between 1960 and 1990
- Europe and America have less than one-half of their original forest cover
- Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York is the highest mountain on the east coast, south of Maine
- It takes about 31 million BTU’s to make a ton of paper enough energy to power a U.S. home for 2 months
- According to IdealBite if 10,000 printed most documents in Draft Mode, we’ll use 20,000 fewer ink cartridges per year.
- In a PC World test, a typical inkjet printed 12 ppm (pages per minute) in regular mode but cranked out 36 ppm in Draft.
The Green Factor
- Less waste. Each year, the world’s discarded cartridges, stacked end-to-end, could circle the planet three times.
- Save Money Printing double-sided, you’ll buy half as much paper,
- Print in Draft Mode- 100 pages in Draft Mode instead of regular mode, you’ll could save as much as $2 on ink.
What To Do
- Set your printer (or print software) to Draft and Double-sided. (see how to print double sided)
- Print only the pages you need- use preview and shrink to fit
- Refill your own printer cartridges
- InkSaver – software that lets you control the amount of ink your printer uses, helping you save up to 75% of your ink. Windows-only ($35).
- GreenPrint – software that weeds out pages you don’t want to print. For Mac or Windows (free for Windows, $29 for Mac). Saving up to $100 per year
- Ecofont – a free typeface for Mac or PC that’s designed to use as little ink as possible but is still totally readable.
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Thanks for the post! By following these steps we can help save our trees. Also we must recycle paper instead of sending it to the landfill. For instance we can use old newspapers creatively to make paper bags. Just as we save our trees, we can also save water. http://j.mp/x69cE has simple yet inexpensive tips to save water!
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