046: Top 5 Tips for Reducing Paper Waste
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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In this episode we will tackle some of the easiest ways to reduce paper waste in your life or simply not bringing in unnecessary paper to begin with. And don't worry about taking notes. All resources, statistics, and websites mentioned are accessible at asustainablemind.com/046
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| 0:00.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 46. This episode is brought to you by Paper Karma, the best tool that you can use to stop junk mail in its tracks. |
| 0:09.7 | iPhone users can grab a special 20% lifetime discount by visiting Papercarma.com and entering the promo code, |
| 0:17.2 | Green Mind, before downloading. Again, the promo code is one word, green mind. Put a stop to |
| 0:23.8 | junk mail today with paper karma. Welcome to a sustainable mind, where we delve into the minds |
| 0:32.6 | behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental |
| 0:39.9 | change makers of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. |
| 0:46.9 | Hey there, Sustainable Minds. You might have noticed that we have a new sponsor on board, |
| 0:52.4 | Pabra Karma, and these last few weeks of partnership have really |
| 0:55.9 | got me thinking, maybe I need to do an episode on paper waste, why it's important to prevent it, |
| 1:01.2 | and how exactly we can go about doing it. Did you know that 40% of the world's industrial logging |
| 1:07.4 | goes directly into making paper? And in the next couple decades, that number is |
| 1:12.3 | expected to rise by 10%. I'm no economist, paper manufacturer, or certifiable genius for that matter, |
| 1:19.5 | but it seems like we have the technology to figure this thing out and curb our consumption of paper. |
| 1:25.0 | That is, if you live in Western society. There are developing countries |
| 1:29.3 | all over the world that will increase their demand for paper for years to come, and with the ever |
| 1:34.2 | growing population of the planet, it seems like those of us that have the choice to live a high |
| 1:38.9 | quality of life with less paper should probably consider it. So here are five tips to help you cut your paper |
| 1:46.8 | usage and paper waste. Number five, I will admit this might be an obvious one. Just don't print so much. |
| 1:55.7 | But even at my last job as an outreach manager and an environmental nonprofit of all things. We printed a lot. |
| 2:03.2 | While I'll let you in on some of my more wasteful habits involving paper later, printing isn't |
| 2:09.2 | one of them. I haven't even owned a printer in about a decade. If I ever need to print something, |
| 2:13.8 | I usually do it a couple times a year and I head down to the local print shop and let |
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