Help the earth by avoiding the useless prints and wastage of papers.

It’s not a request to “think only” to print or not.

It’s a request to not to print unnecessary documents.

As we believe that your thinking will not make any change, infact your change will ultimately change and make a difference.

Every day, people hit the print button even after knowing the fact that this particular print is just for their viewing purpose and not required to be filed as important. They also know and understand the effect of printing and wasting pages.

But why they do like this: - May be the following few points will give a clear idea for that: -

1.      They are not used to read the documents on the screen.

2.      It’s just a habit for some to go for printing as soon as some official correspondence is received.

3.      They believe it more convenient to make any correction on the hard copy and then forward or keep with them.

4.      They don’t care for the paper wastages and the global effect of the same.

In my official email id, I have around 13K mails and if I would have printed all of them, then they would be more than 50K (avg 4 pages per mails, excluding attachments)

I personally have seen many peoples who just go for printing the papers without having any necessary requirements. 

But is there any alternative for the same.

Yes we can save papers by just following the below steps: -

1.      Check before printing that this is the final outcome of the report you have prepared.

2.      Don’t print the casual conversations; only print the outcomes and final reports. For e.g. if you are in conversation with your client on the sales, offerings for your company’s products. In this case you have to focus on the PO only (i.e. Purchase Order) You don’t need to print what you offered earlier, how the negotiations gone, etc.

3.      Make a place in your office for rough papers. And inform all to use these papers when they print the uncompleted reports.

4.      Before printing, go for print preview. By this you can adjust your margins, etc so that you can exclude those papers which don’t contain anything to print.

5.      Use double sided prints. {Why do we use one side for printing when we can print on both the sides? Do we also use one hand even after having gifted by two hands by god}

6.      Recycle the office papers. Organize a meeting on this topic for the awareness of everyone in your office.

7.      Go Digital – You can store your files online also, only most important documents can only be printed.

I don’t know that how much the above article will impact on you and your understanding but definitely we need to change to make a change.

Finally it’s a fight between what you believe and what you do.

Thanks & Regards,

BS