Paper Consumption at Pelletier Library

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Paper Consumption at Pelletier Library

• By Sophia Braden, Devon Fay, Dan Piper, and John
  Mangini

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Life Cycle of Paper

• Hardwood forests are logged and chipped into a
  pulp slurry
• Slurry is dried, spread thin on sheets
• Sheets placed through industrial rollers
• Heated rollers dry the flattened pulp
• Shipped
• Disposal

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Life Cycle Visual Learning Tool
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Does paper grow on trees?

• Orders cases weekly from Service Office Supply
• 1 Case is 29.95
• September-March12 cases per month
• April16 cases per month
• May 6 cases per month
• June-August 4 cases per month

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How much paper?

• 118 cases consumed annually
• 1 case 10 reams 1 ream 500 pages
• 118 cases X 10 reams X 500 pages 590,000 pages
  or 281 per student

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Whats the fiscal cost?

• Annual library paper budget 3,534
• Per Student 1.68 per year
• Per Page cost .006
• Does price reflect cost?

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Environmental Costs

• Embodied energy 98 tons of resources needed to
  produce 1 ton of paper
• Dirties Water 9 billion tons discharge per year
• Paper mills create 40 tons of sludge each day
• Paper mills release carbon dioxide, sulphur
  dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, chlorine dioxide, and
  other particulate matter
• Paper accounts for 36 percent of all municipal
  waste

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Final Thoughts

• Price does not equal cost

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Pelletier Library Recycling Center
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Pelletier bulletin board