Change the Margins
From the Inventor's classroom to the Atrium community. yesterday we changed all the margins on all the computers in our school. Our school use 40 boxes of office paper per year. That is 200,000 sheets of paper. We always try to use both sides of any piece of paper before we recycle it. And we recycle ALL our paper. Thanks to Tamara Krinsky @ http://www.changethemargins.co... for this fabulous idea. Go to her site for more information on this simple and powerful idea. And special thanks to my husband ,Robert Fairchild, who is my npr relay
station. He told me about this idea. He passes all the news I need.
Norah Dooley, assistant teacher
Dan Berman, lead teacher
the volume of office paper and commercial printing increased a whopping 245% between 1960 and 1994, from 3.9 to 13.5 million tons. During this time, all other solid municipal waste generated was up much less -- about 133% (which is still a lot!).
And even though much of this paper is high quality and easily recycled, we're printing, faxing,copying and collating memos at a much faster rate than can be dealt with by recycling programs. Whatever happened to the so-called paperless society?
Time to Use Less Stuff!
Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: April 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Author: DubhHer0
Length: 05:04
Rating: 5.00
Views: 299
Tags: AtriumSchool
Video Comments
|
