Tips and Tools
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Our favourite tips, tools and links for saving paper:
Paper Saving Tips
WWFs guide to saving paper.
Paper saving tips for the office.
Great tips, including how to measure paper use.
Practical and techy hints for reducing paper use at TechSoup's paper saving page.
Business Guides
The Environmental Paper Network has a fact sheet on efficient paper use.
This business guide to reducing paper consumption includes fascinating case studies of how much money can be saved.
Wordpress has some great paper saving ideas on its blog about what Designers Can Do To Save The Earth
Tools and Miscellaneous
You can order stickers for napkin dispensers that say These Come From Trees, each sticker saves a tree’s worth of paper in a year.
The environmental benefits of using less paper can be calculated with Environmental Defense's paper calculator.
Greenprint is saving a million trees through smart printing.
Signing Off Junk Mail
There are lots of websites for helping you to sign off junk mail. Here are just some:
- Australia: Australian Direct Marketing Association
- Canada: www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BizWaste/OfficePaper/MailReduce.htm
- UK: www.mpsonline.org.uk
- USA: www.catalogchoice.org
- www.dmachoice.org/cgi/offmailinglist
- www.stopjunk.com
- www.41pounds.com
- www.greendimes.com
Non-English Websites
Robin Wood's paper pages include links to a paper saving initiative by German NGOs.

