Reducing paper use benefits you, the bottom line, and the environment. This guide provides tips and tools for office workers and managers in business, government, and other organizations. You will find steps to reduce paper at your desk, in the mail room, by using new technologies, and in many other ways. See how smarter paper buying choices can reduce cost and waste. Paperless Express Guide.

 

 

 

Sample forms and worksheets shown in the guide, are available below for download.
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• Office Paper Use Questionnaire:  Take stock of how your office is currently using paper to see where there’s room for improvement.
  
  

  Enough paper is wasted by U.S. businesses each year that we could construct a wall of paper 12 feet tall that would stretch all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast.

• Sample Internal Memo: Developing a Smart Paper Plan:  Have top management send a memo to demonstrate support for a paper use reduction plan.
  
  
• Sample: Less Paper Pledge:  Ask employees to sign a pledge form that shows commitment to paper use reduction actions.
  
  
• Purchasing Assessment Worksheet:  Use this worksheet to identify ways to reduce paper purchases.
  
  
• Discards Assessment Worksheet:  Use this worksheet to identify ways to reduce and reuse paper that is thrown away or recycled.
  
  
• Paper Reduction Worksheet:  Use this worksheet to identify steps to implement paper use reduction strategies in your office.