The Gazette: Marian Scott
Paper, paper everywhere; Whatever happened to the paperless office? Canadians use more paper than ever before- and The Gazette’s office is no exception.
Paper consumption more than doubled in Canada between 1983 and 2003 and the business world’s demand for paper is still going up, a Statistics Canada study concluded last year.
The 400 employees of Gazette’s advertising, editorial and administrative offices are spread over three floors of the downtown Dominion Square Building.
With 11 copiers, 16 fax machines and 45 printers, we use a total of 25,590 kilograms of office paper a year. And not a sheet of it has recycled content.
If we switched to 100-per-cent recycled office paper, it would cost up to 33 per cent more but we could save 676 trees and spare the environment 27 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, estimated Zerofootprint, a Toronto not-for-profit organization that analyzed The Gazette office’s carbon footprint.
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