From the course: Tips to Make Your Office Eco-Friendly

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Adopt a digital-first policy

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From the course: Tips to Make Your Office Eco-Friendly

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- Things have changed from the days when your boss would holler, "Print me 70 copies of the Lundberg file," from his corner office, and everybody would race to the behemoth copy machine, praying it wouldn't jam. These days, workplaces can operate successfully with little to no printing, and this digital nimbleness doesn't just save you from commuting with an enormous Dragnet-esque briefcase, stuffed with papers, it also helps the planet. Now, you may think that our reliance on paper has gone flat, but statistics tell a very different story. Worldwide consumption of paper has risen by 400% in the last 40 years, with 35% of harvested trees being used for paper manufacturing. Paper production is also the third most energy-intensive industry, and every year the average American office worker, that might be you, uses about 10,000 sheets of paper, half of which don't even get properly recycled. That's a lot of trees and a lot of…

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