City of Seattle PaperCuts Campaign

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City of Seattle PaperCuts Campaign

• July 2005

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WHY PAPER?
Resource Intensive

• About 42 of the wood harvested for industrial
  use goes to making paper. Federal Network for
  Sustainability Paper Campaign

• In the U.S., the pulp and paper industry is the
  second largest consumer of energy and uses more
  water to produce a ton of product than any other
  industry. Federal Network for Sustainability
  Paper Campaign

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WHY PAPER?
High Volume of Use

• An average office worker uses about 10,000 sheets
  of copier paper per year! King County Waste
  Prevention Website

• In 2004, the City of Seattle purchased roughly
  67.5 million sheets of copier/printer paper.
  Seattle FFD

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Why City of Seattle?

• Each year the City uses a mountain of paper
  higher than Rainier (or 34 1/2 Space Needles)

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Budget Implications for Paper Switch Reduction
Options (for 2005)
410,895
369,806
349,261
288,218
287,627
288,218

Note Budget calculations reflect 2003 prices for
paper. 1 ream of 30 1.95 1 ream of 100
2.78 Assumptions 1) The cost of 30 and 100
paper is assumed to remain constant, even though
buying larger quantities of 100 paper may bring
down the costs. 2) Calculations do not quantify
the environmental benefits of these options.
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City of Seattle PaperCuts Campaign

• Three-Step Approach

• Buy and Use less paper - 15 goal in 2005 and
  additional 15 goal in 2006

• Buy 100 recycled paper from FFD Warehouse

Anthony Harris

• Increase recycling

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ITS NOT JUST ABOUT THE TREESOTHER
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
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• What will we gain?
• When the City of Seattle switches from 30 to
  100 recycled paper and we reduce our use by 30
  by the end of 2006 we will save annually

• Annually
• Equivalent of 5,800 trees
• 6,318,000 BTUs
• 876,000 pounds of Greenhouse Gases and other air
  emissions
• 376,000 pounds of solid waste
• 21,150 pounds of water pollutants
• EPAs Web Based Paper Calculator

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Getting StartedNEW PaperCuts Website

• www.seattle.gov/papercuts
• Departmental Paper Use Reports
• What Can I Do?
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Posters and Stickers
• Resources
• Links
• Executive Order

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General

• Identify a lead person to be the Paper Waste
  Champion for your Department
• Recruit interested or strategically placed staff
  to be on your PWP team

• Make a plan for reducing paper consumption in
  your Department
• Estimate paper savings from each strategy

Anthony Harris
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Education

• Ask staff to submit ideas about reducing paper
  use
• Strategically place posters and labels
• Share PaperCuts Top Ten Tips with staff

• Send email notification to your department about
  PaperCuts
• Publicize your Departments paper reduction goal

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Good Office Practices

• Duplex!
• Use desk-jets only for documents that require
  security
• Hold Green Meetings
• Send internal communications electronically

• Maintain an electronic library for departmental
  forms and documents
• Dedicate one copier drawer to Second Chance
  Paper

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I.T.

• Inventory printers, copiers and faxes to
  determine which are duplex capable
• Set Duplex as Default
• Establish a printer policy to reduce ratio of
  printers to employees

• Stop printing documents that can be shared or
  stored electronically
• Consult with I.T. to learn about tech
  improvements that can save paper

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Public Information and Communication

• Put all documents the public needs access to on
  your website
• Instead of printing long documents to give away
  copy them onto CDs

• Groom your mailing lists frequently to eliminate
  bad or duplicate addresses

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City of Seattle PaperCuts Campaign
For more information go to http//seattle.gov/pa
percuts/