Action #078

Photocopy on both sides

This action has been done 6,341 times which means roughly 380.46 trees haven't been chopped.

How would you feel if your hairdresser only cut the hair on the left-hand side of your head? How would you feel if you were sold a pair of trousers with only one leg? How would you feel if you feel if you'd been given a one-sided coin. (Actually, that might be quite cool.) There are two sides to every piece of paper. Use them.

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Last year, I had an excellent History teacher. She always suggested us to use both sidse of the pages for delivering homeworks. Now I try to recycle all that I can and teach friends and family to do it :) 04 January 2010, 05:08

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about using both sides of paper
- A single tree will absorb approx 730kg of CO2 over its lifetime
- One person causes about 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide to be emitted a year. One tree removes about 3/4 of a tonne of CO2 over its lifetime.
- By cooling the air and ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool the earth's temperature.
- A single mature beech tree can produce enough oxygen for 10 people in a year.
- Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
- Shade trees can make buildings up to 20 degrees cooler in the summer.
- Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
- Tree roots stabilize soil and prevent erosion.
- Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water, as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
- Over one given year; one hectare of mature woodland will absorb the carbon emissions of 100 average family cars.
- It is estimated that the average person in the UK consumes the equivalent of 12 trees a year. This present rate of world consumption is unsustainable and yet trees are vital to our life on earth.
- How many 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) of 100% virgin copier paper uses 0.6 trees
  1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets
  1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree
  1 ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines like National Geographic and many others) uses a little more than 15 trees (15.36 trees)
  1 ton of coated, lower-end virgin magazine paper (used for newsmagazines and most catalogs) uses nearly 8 trees (7.68 trees)
- To calculate how many trees are saved by using recycled paper Multiply the number of trees needed to make a ton of the kind of paper you're talking about (groundwood or freesheet) by the percent recycled content in the paper. For example, 1 ton (40 cartons) of 30% postconsumer content copier paper saves 7.2 trees. 1 ton of 50% postconsumer content copier paper saves 12 trees.
- Other tips for environmentally friendly office use:
  - Refill and reuse empty printer cartridges
  - Use rewriteable CDs and DVDs so they can be re-used again
  - Print double-sided.
  - Decrease margin areas to fit more copy on a page
  - Double-check your drafts before you print
  - Communicate with team members about who will bring printouts to meetings
  - Turn off all electrical equipment at night.
- Paper consumption has tripled in the last decade.
- Every year, the United States uses nearly 3.7 million tons of copy paper - more than 700 billion sheets.

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