With school starting up soon (or in some cases it’s already started) it’s important to consider the impact paper use in school has.

According to Conservatree, you can estimate that…

1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees
1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees
A “pallet” of copier paper (20-lb. sheet weight, or 20#) contains 40 cartons and weighs 1 ton. Therefore,
1 carton (10 reams) …read more

Most people nowadays really don’t need a phone book. Since last year I think I used mine exactly once, and that was when my laptop died and I didn’t have Internet. Had I planned ahead for such an issue, I would have had the computer repair folks number on my cell, and avoided the phone book.

The problem with phone books is that they’re huge, full of paper (most of which you’ll never use) and in my town they come wrapped in plastic. You can recycle phone books but both making them and recycling them takes energy and resources, so why …read more