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AIT's Employee Paper Recycling Program
Generates Significant Savings
Because of its internal employee recycling program encouraging employees to reuse paper at all office printers and copy machines, AIT Worldwide Logistics has reported substantial environmental and business savings at its corporate headquarters location in Itasca, Illinois.
According to AIT's Purchasing department, monthly orders for copy paper have literally been slashed in half. Whereas the company typically ordered approximately 80 cases of paper on a monthly basis, AIT employees are now averaging only 40 cases per month.
In just five short months, AIT is already down 80 cases of paper from last year. Since January of 2009, the internal recycling program has resulted in cost savings totaling $2,800 and 800 reams of copy paper.
Paper Recycling Facts and Figures:
How much paper do we use in the United States each year?
- About 85 million tons of paper and paperboard.
- Each year, more than 2 billion books, 350 million magazines, and 24 billion newspapers are published.
- The average American uses approximately one 100-foot-tall Douglas fir tree in paper and wood products per year.
How much paper do offices use?
- The average office worker in the US uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. That's 4 million tons of copy paper used annually.
- Office workers in the US generate approximately 2 pounds of paper and paperboard products every day.
How much paper and paperboard is recycled every year?
- Paper accounts for more than a third of all recyclables collected in the US, by weight.
- In 2007, the amount of paper recovered for recycling averaged 360 pounds for each person living in the US, according to the American Forest & Paper Association.
What products can be made from recycled paper?
Besides easily recognizable paper products (e.g, writing paper or paper towels), more than 5,000 products can be made from recycled paper, including:
- Masking tape
- Paper money
- Globes
- Bandages
- Dust masks
- Hospital gowns
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- Coffee filters
- Lamp shades
- Car insulation
- Animal bedding
- Planting pots for seedlings
- Egg cartons
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* Source: the Environmental Protection Agency - www.epa.gov
- by Christine Nicholson, corporate public relations coordinator
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