Businesses across the country are coming to terms with the fact that resources, in every sense of the word, don’t grow on trees—except maybe paper. For instance, colleges and universities all over have learned that many times, people consume without even thinking about it. Consider the article you printed this morning, the emails you printed off and promised to read over lunch, or the bank statements that you end up reading online and never opening when the hardcopy arrives in the mail. Examples like these just show that we don’t even think twice about consuming when we might not even need to.
For instance, colleges and universities across the country have introduced print management systems to, hopefully, reign in on the amount of ink and paper that are used. On a number of levels, initiatives like this both save money and the environment. By conserving paper, fewer acres of our valuable forests need to be cut down and less energy must be used to process the raw materials to produce the actual paper. As for ink, conservation also reduces the emissions created and the energy spent in the production and actual use of the ink.
When it comes down to it, the facts are clear. Sure, managing elements of business such as paper and ink consumption are simple and easily implemented measures to help the environment. However, it’s also important to remember that conservation is as valuable as it is green. While the price of a ream of paper may seem cheap, it can surely add up. Every single sheet is money spent, and that means that every wasted sheet is money thrown away forever. While ink cartridges are more expensive, the same relationship exists. You can’t recycle used ink, and every drop wasted is cents thrown into the waste basket.
EWS affiliates operating all over the country are capable of helping businesses realize the potential in waste. While their focus may not be paper and ink, we’ve all experienced and taken part in the waste that takes place in the office. By locating the sources of waste and cutting inefficiency off at the source, EWS can help businesses keep more money while doing their part for the environment.
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