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The cost of printer paper has gone through the roof.  Not just the financial cost but a great ecological cost.  I’ve found a simple, easy way to save money and the environment.

Reuse your printer paper.  What?  Of course you can’t always reuse your printer paper for every new print job you have.  But you can reuse it, more than you think.  Here are some ideas I’ve used to cut down (No pun intended) on the cost of my printer paper and help the environment.

Above my desk I have two trays.  In one I put a supply of fresh, unused printer paper.  In the other I place used paper.  You know, those sheets that only have just one short line of (meaningless) printing left over from a printing of web page.  Or those pages you’ve decided aren’t printed well or have mistakes on them (Well at least I have some of those.)  These are the pages you have put in the trash before, gone, wasted.

The page has two sides.  I take that sheet before throwing it away and look at it.  Is there a clean side I could use later?  If there is, I put it in the tray of used paper.  I sometimes will take a pencil and quickly draw a curved live across the used side to remind me it’s a used paper (this only takes a second.)  This prevents the sheet being used on something I want, that uses only one side.  You don’t have to do that, but it has saved a few mistakes and thus…lost time.

I use the tray of used paper for: Scratch paper, printing something I am only going to use quick and then throw away or file (Why waste a clean sheet?), as a divider or sorter, taping up  a large note as a reminder, packing material, virtually anything you would use a clean sheet of paper for, but don’t want to waste a new sheet of paper.

Imagine the cost savings.  Imagine what reusing your paper will do to reduce the number of trees that are cut down each year.  Imagine how you will feel knowing you are doing both.

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