Smart Paper Use
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Smart Paper Use
Adapted from The Smart Office, by A.K.Townsend.
Whatever happened to the paperless office? That's a good question. With the wonder of today's technology, we have the capacity to contain whole filing cabinets of information on just one CD-ROM.
Look at what the following can hold:
1. One floppy disk: 750 sheets, about a five-inch stack of typed pages;
2. 100Mb hard disk: contents of a four-drawer filing cabinet, and
3. CD-ROM: entire roomful of paper.
Saving paper can mean fewer file cabinets, which can reduce your office space needs dramatically. It's estimated to cost over $2,000 each year to maintain a filing cabinet and about $25,000 to fill it. These costs include the labor and paper costs. One estimate even states that about 3 percent of your filing cabinet documents will become misplaced, and it will cost about $120 in labor to find each one. On the other hand, storing files on disk or CD-ROM is much less expensive in human time and in storage space.
While relying less on paper has many advantages, be aware of possible disadvantages:
* Your office may use more energy if computers, faxes, or other equipment are left on longer with higher demand.
* Increased health risks can arise due to eye strain, low-frequency radiation, carpal tunnel syndrome, nonergonomic workstations, etc.
Helpful Hints
Agri-pulp
Agri-pulp, made by Arbokem, is one of the smartest papers available. Not only is agri-pulp made of 45 percent agricultural waste, 43 percent post-consumer waste paper, and 12 percent calcium-carbonate filler, but it is acid-free, totally chlorine-free processing, totally effluent-free agri-pulp manufacturing. Considering the terrible pollution created at most pulp and paper mills, agri-pulp is impressive.
Price-wise, agri-pulp is competitive. Although it is more expensive to process it using the effluent-free and chlorine-free technologies, the agricultural waste used in manufacture costs about one-third that of wood chips. Contact Arbokem at: 604-322-1317. Agri-Pulp
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The Smart Office
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965708101/
Smart Paper Use
Adapted from The Smart Office, by A.K.Townsend.
Whatever happened to the paperless office? That's a good question. With the wonder of today's technology, we have the capacity to contain whole filing cabinets of information on just one CD-ROM.
Look at what the following can hold:
1. One floppy disk: 750 sheets, about a five-inch stack of typed pages;
2. 100Mb hard disk: contents of a four-drawer filing cabinet, and
3. CD-ROM: entire roomful of paper.
Saving paper can mean fewer file cabinets, which can reduce your office space needs dramatically. It's estimated to cost over $2,000 each year to maintain a filing cabinet and about $25,000 to fill it. These costs include the labor and paper costs. One estimate even states that about 3 percent of your filing cabinet documents will become misplaced, and it will cost about $120 in labor to find each one. On the other hand, storing files on disk or CD-ROM is much less expensive in human time and in storage space.
While relying less on paper has many advantages, be aware of possible disadvantages:
* Your office may use more energy if computers, faxes, or other equipment are left on longer with higher demand.
* Increased health risks can arise due to eye strain, low-frequency radiation, carpal tunnel syndrome, nonergonomic workstations, etc.
Helpful Hints
Agri-pulp
Agri-pulp, made by Arbokem, is one of the smartest papers available. Not only is agri-pulp made of 45 percent agricultural waste, 43 percent post-consumer waste paper, and 12 percent calcium-carbonate filler, but it is acid-free, totally chlorine-free processing, totally effluent-free agri-pulp manufacturing. Considering the terrible pollution created at most pulp and paper mills, agri-pulp is impressive.
Price-wise, agri-pulp is competitive. Although it is more expensive to process it using the effluent-free and chlorine-free technologies, the agricultural waste used in manufacture costs about one-third that of wood chips. Contact Arbokem at: 604-322-1317. Agri-Pulp
Shop for Supplies
The Smart Office
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965708101/
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