5. the cost
2,000 pounds 11,134 kWh
“Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same
amount of energy used by an average household in 10
months) [..] and produces 19,075 gallons of waste water,
2,278 lb of solid waste, and 5,690 lb. of green house gases.”
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
6. the cost
10 months
2,000 pounds
of home electric
“Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same
amount of energy used by an average household in 10
months) [..] and produces 19,075 gallons of waste water,
2,278 lb of solid waste, and 5,690 lb. of green house gases.”
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
7. the cost
2,000 pounds 19,075 gallons
“Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same
amount of energy used by an average household in 10
months) [..] and produces 19,075 gallons of waste water,
2,278 lb of solid waste, and 5,690 lb. of green house gases.”
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
8. the cost
2,000 pounds 2,278 pounds
“Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same
amount of energy used by an average household in 10
months) [..] and produces 19,075 gallons of waste water,
2,278 lb of solid waste, and 5,690 lb. of green house gases.”
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
9. the cost
2,000 pounds 5,690 pounds
“Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same
amount of energy used by an average household in 10
months) [..] and produces 19,075 gallons of waste water,
2,278 lb of solid waste, and 5,690 lb. of green house gases.”
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
10. the cost
Average cost of a wasted page: $0.06
The average employee prints
6 wasted pages per day.
That's 1,410 wasted pages, or
$84 per employee, per year.
For a company with 500 employees,
that’s $42,000 per year.
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
11. What can I do?
Real strategies you can start using today
12. GIVE YOURSELVES a pat
Home & Community Services is off to a great start:
Online trainings and resources = no handouts
Online resource page =no extra printing
Digital form versions (not really in use yet)
Every day consciousness (only some)
But is it enough?
13. PRINTING the internet
3 out of 4 office workers print from the
Internet.
greenprint | www.printgreener.com
14. Don’t you believe it
You should NOT bookmark a webpage to
save it instead of printing it. Pages can expire or
be removed from the web.
15. PRINTING the internet
1. Look for the printer-
friendly version.
22. PRINTING the internet
Never underestimate
the jot.
If you really only need the end
of the directions, after getting
off the Turnpike, can you just
jot it down?
Exit turnpike
Left at Marshall
Right on Reed Dr.
#34 on the left
mapquest.com About 13 mins
610 436 1215
Smaller pieces = less waste!
23. Don’t you believe it
Who says little notes have to be on Stickies?
Instead, grab a recycled notepad from the
ESC Mail Room. They’re free and eco-friendly.
24. Don’t you believe it
Who says little notes have to be on Stickies?
You might also try this ceramic memo board,
just $15 at seejanework.com.
25. PRINTING the internet
Nuke Anything is a free FireFox
add-on that allows users to
simply highlight a section of a
webpage, right click, and select
“Remove this object.” This
software add-on is handy for text
or images. You’ll have to be
using Firefox to access it;
Firefox, however, is also free.
Download it in Firefox! Tools >Addons> Get Addons.
26. PRINTING everything else
Use your print dialog box.
Select only the pages you truly need (page range).
example: Skip intro and conclusion PowerPoint slides,
or if you’re proofreading one section of a report, omit
the others!
27. PRINTING everything else
Use your print dialog box.
Try two pages per sheet.
Especially with PowerPoint slides or image
slideshows.
28. PRINTING everything else
Use your print dialog box.
Print to PDF.
Save the file on your
computer for later.
29. PRINTING everything else
Think you’ll never find it again?
Try Spotlight.
Search every part of
every file in every folder.
31. Don’t you believe it
Who says you can’t take notes on a PDF?
With Adobe Professional (just $50), you can
comment, highlight, and hand-write on a PDF.
32. PRINTING everything else
Use your print dialog box.
Duplex, duplex, duplex.
There’s no excuse anymore for one-sided handouts
or reports. If you’re concerned, place an eco-note in
the footer!
34. Don’t you dare
… trash your misprints. Everyone prints a
document once in a while that doesn’t come out
right.
35. Don’t you dare
Don’t trash your misprints. Everyone prints a
document once in a while that doesn’t come out
right. Save it for notepaper.
36. PRINTING everything else
Avoid unnecessaries.
Ask yourself: How long until this is thrown away?
images courtesy of lickgoldsky.files.wordpress.com, i.ehow.com, and content.etilize.com
37. PRINTING everything else
Instead, try
images courtesy of thisauntieblogstoo.files.wordpress.com, clker.com, and images.tigerdirect.com
39. clean little secret:
Do you type in all caps?
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.
40. clean little secret:
Do you type in all caps?
Try lowercase:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
41. Don’t you believe it
Using capital letters does NOT JUST draw
attention to text. It also is naturally more difficult for
the eye to read, and APPEARS AS THOUGH YOU
ARE SHOUTING.
Use caps ONLY for emphasis, not for everything.
42. clean little secret:
If you use
Comic Sans, Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, or Courier, …
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
43. clean little secret:
Try a smaller, lowercase, thinner typeface.
Arial Narrow, Times, Abadi Condensed, Bell Gothic.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
44. clean little secret:
Don’t dig thin?
Try EcoFont.
This is EcoFont at 12pt.
This is Verdana at 12pt.
Results
The estimated ink savings of the Ecofont is 20%.
www.ecofont.eu
45. clean little secret:
1.25” is so last year.
The default margins for Microsoft Word are
set at 1.25quot; on each side. quot;According to the
good people on the Microsoft Help line,
there is no technical reason for this. It's
merely a convention we have all gotten
used to.” Tamara Krinsky, treehugger.com
Try .75” to use less paper per project.
46. clean little secret:
Going “screen blind”?
After looking at a document on the screen for a long time, reviewing a printout often allows you
to catch errors that would have gone unnoticed.
An on-screen trick to review your document from a different perspective is to temporarily
change the font size of the text (try making it larger), or the zoom size (View > Zoom).
This makes the words easier to read and shifts lines around, giving your eyes a new view of the
document.
47. clean little secret:
Going “screen blind”?
After looking at a document on the screen for a long time, reviewing
a printout often allows you to catch errors that would have gone
unnoticed.
An on-screen trick to review your document from a different
perspective is to temporarily change the font size of the text (try
making it larger), or the zoom size (View > Zoom).
This makes the words easier to read and shifts lines around, giving
your eyes a new view of the document.
48. the web can help
online tools to clean up your act
50. Skip the handout
Try holding meetings in
a space that lets you
record a demo or
lecture, such as iChat or
Elluminate.
apple | www.apple.com
elluminate | www.elluminate.com
51. Skip the handout
Or, place the resources
you would have Slideboom.com
otherwise printed Slideshare.com
online for participants YouTube
to reference.
Moodle
52. PICK UP the pace
How can we encourage doing more?
Cite over-printers. It is a cost to the
company.
Cite personal printers. That includes
yourself!
Ask for it digitally when they bring you a
copy.
