How can we reduce the use of paper
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Change your bills to ‘paperless’ and pay them online or by phone. Most companies will make this easy for you to do since an Email is a lot cheaper than postage. You can also set up automatic billing, which should be even lower stress (assuming that you can pay them) since it just automatically debits your bank account at billing time. Ask for paperless reports from credit cards and banks as well. Most banks offer this service through their websites or phone support.
Save online receipts in a folder on your computer. How? In Windows you can take a screenshot by pressing the “Print Screen” key on your keyboard. Once you have taken the screenshot you can use ‘paste’ in an image editing program such as Paint, or a word processor such as Microsoft Word. This can get a bit tiresome if the receipt is multiple pages long. An even better technique is to print to a file. There are many print-to-file techniques available, though they depend on your computer’s operating system and setup. Every operating system that I am aware of has one of these, it just sometimes takes a little bit of setting up. If you don’t know how to print to a file, try searching for “<your operating system name and version> print to file” on an Internet search engine such as Google. You can refine this search by putting in a filetype as well, such as pdf, rtf, png, etc. If you don’t feel your technical skills are up to the task, ask a computer-savvy friend or a kid.
Try to end junk mail. Many companies have simple contact details for phone or internet. There are many tips for doing this around the Internet such as at EHow.
Minimize your use of paper. Re-use one-sided paper for notes, sketches, rough work, etc. Use both sides of pieces of paper.
Don’t use a bigger piece of paper than you need. If you only need half or a quarter of a page to write down a recipe or shopping list, then only use that amount.
Use paper from recycling bins for notes, etc. Most people only print on one side, leaving a full side of high quality white paper. This saved me a lot of money in university. The library always had a lot of paper in the recycle bins beside the printers. I would just go in and take a stack every once in a while. The amount that people printed and sent straight into the recycle bins was just staggering.
Use electronic storage rather than paper storage for material. Don’t print them unless you really have to. Electronic storage can be very reliable if it is set up with backups. How do you make automatically scheduled backups? For Windows I have used DirSyncPro which can be run using the Windows scheduler at specific times of the day/week/month. See the DirSyncPro FAQ for more info on how to set that up. There are also built-in backup utilities for versions of Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows that have been released in the last five to ten years. You can easily find out how to use these by searching online. Another alternative that I have been liking lately is cloud storage online. I use the free service offered by Google Docs for most of my document needs, so I never have to worry about hard drive failures.
If you need to buy paper, buy recycled when you can. It isn’t perfect, but it is a step in the right direction.
Be frugal about magazine subscriptions, newspapers etc. Many newspapers have online versions. Online magazine subscriptions are also available at places like Barnes & Noble.
Printing
Think before you print. Do you really need to print it? Many people have bad habits of just clicking the print button whenever they want to read something. Especially in office settings this can be incredibly wasteful. If you computer screen isn’t nice enough to read things on, consider upgrading to a newer, higher quality one. Specifically, old CRT monitors have a flicker to them that was harder on eyes than modern LCD monitors. Reading on a screen isn’t perfect either, but it doesn’t waste paper needlessly.
If you only need one page of a document, only print that. This is often very easy to do in the ‘print’ menu of whatever word processor (or Internet browser) you are using.
When printing a web page, copy and paste the text into a word processor so that it is formatted correctly for printing. Printing webpages ‘as is’ often prints a lot of junk that you don’t want, perhaps also using up colored inks as well.
Proofread your work carefully before printing it. Use the ‘print preview’ mode in your word processor / presentation software / spreadsheet software in order to make sure what you are printing is exactly what you want.
You can print on both sides of the paper with most modern printers. This is often referred to as print ‘duplex’.
Adjust margins on your documents. The smaller margin of .75 inch (1.90cm) is becoming more common.
Save online receipts in a folder on your computer. How? In Windows you can take a screenshot by pressing the “Print Screen” key on your keyboard. Once you have taken the screenshot you can use ‘paste’ in an image editing program such as Paint, or a word processor such as Microsoft Word. This can get a bit tiresome if the receipt is multiple pages long. An even better technique is to print to a file. There are many print-to-file techniques available, though they depend on your computer’s operating system and setup. Every operating system that I am aware of has one of these, it just sometimes takes a little bit of setting up. If you don’t know how to print to a file, try searching for “<your operating system name and version> print to file” on an Internet search engine such as Google. You can refine this search by putting in a filetype as well, such as pdf, rtf, png, etc. If you don’t feel your technical skills are up to the task, ask a computer-savvy friend or a kid.
Try to end junk mail. Many companies have simple contact details for phone or internet. There are many tips for doing this around the Internet such as at EHow.
Minimize your use of paper. Re-use one-sided paper for notes, sketches, rough work, etc. Use both sides of pieces of paper.
Don’t use a bigger piece of paper than you need. If you only need half or a quarter of a page to write down a recipe or shopping list, then only use that amount.
Use paper from recycling bins for notes, etc. Most people only print on one side, leaving a full side of high quality white paper. This saved me a lot of money in university. The library always had a lot of paper in the recycle bins beside the printers. I would just go in and take a stack every once in a while. The amount that people printed and sent straight into the recycle bins was just staggering.
Use electronic storage rather than paper storage for material. Don’t print them unless you really have to. Electronic storage can be very reliable if it is set up with backups. How do you make automatically scheduled backups? For Windows I have used DirSyncPro which can be run using the Windows scheduler at specific times of the day/week/month. See the DirSyncPro FAQ for more info on how to set that up. There are also built-in backup utilities for versions of Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows that have been released in the last five to ten years. You can easily find out how to use these by searching online. Another alternative that I have been liking lately is cloud storage online. I use the free service offered by Google Docs for most of my document needs, so I never have to worry about hard drive failures.
If you need to buy paper, buy recycled when you can. It isn’t perfect, but it is a step in the right direction.
Be frugal about magazine subscriptions, newspapers etc. Many newspapers have online versions. Online magazine subscriptions are also available at places like Barnes & Noble.
Printing
Think before you print. Do you really need to print it? Many people have bad habits of just clicking the print button whenever they want to read something. Especially in office settings this can be incredibly wasteful. If you computer screen isn’t nice enough to read things on, consider upgrading to a newer, higher quality one. Specifically, old CRT monitors have a flicker to them that was harder on eyes than modern LCD monitors. Reading on a screen isn’t perfect either, but it doesn’t waste paper needlessly.
If you only need one page of a document, only print that. This is often very easy to do in the ‘print’ menu of whatever word processor (or Internet browser) you are using.
When printing a web page, copy and paste the text into a word processor so that it is formatted correctly for printing. Printing webpages ‘as is’ often prints a lot of junk that you don’t want, perhaps also using up colored inks as well.
Proofread your work carefully before printing it. Use the ‘print preview’ mode in your word processor / presentation software / spreadsheet software in order to make sure what you are printing is exactly what you want.
You can print on both sides of the paper with most modern printers. This is often referred to as print ‘duplex’.
Adjust margins on your documents. The smaller margin of .75 inch (1.90cm) is becoming more common.
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