1. Sustainable World Business Development Sustainability Webinar Paper Management SUS001

2. Paper Management

3. Environmental Impacts

4. Deforestation- Worldwide consumption of paper has risen by 400% in the past 40 years, with 35% of harvested trees being used for paper manufacture. The logging of old growth forests raises ethical questions about cutting down trees that are hundreds of years to make paper pulp. However of even greater concern is that many natural habitats such as old growth forests act as carbon sinks that collect some of the excess Carbon Dioxide (CO2) that is being released into the atmosphere, which can be considered to be a very valuable ecosystem service. Waste- Paper waste accounts for up to 40% of total waste in the United States, which adds up to 71.6 million tons of waste per year. Paper waste, like other waste, carries the risk of additional hazards such as toxic inks and dyes that could be potentially carcinogenic when incinerated and can contaminate local and foreign ground water. Pollution - Water and Air Pollution is caused by Nitrogen Dioxide in paper, which is one of the major contributors to acid rain. Also the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in paper is a greenhouse gas, which is a factor in climate change. Recycling - As discussed earlier paper recycling mitigates some of these impacts, but the environmental and economic impacts of the energy consumed by manufacturing, transporting and reprocessing paper products is still very high. Thus people and business should not only focus on recycling when paper is used, but put more interest and resources in eliminating paper in the workplace as much as possible Environmental Impact-

5. Cost

6. The average document is copied 9 to 11 times Filing costs average $20 per document and each four-drawer file cabinet holds an average of 10,000 to 12,000 documents, takes up to 9 square feet of floor space and costs $1,500 per year We are approaching 4 trillion documents being stored by businesses and government agencies at an estimated cost of $500,000,000,000 dollars annually Every 12 filing cabinets require an additional employee to maintain 18 minutes is the average search time for a document More than 70% of today’s businesses would fail within 3 weeks if they suffered a catastrophic loss of paper-based records due to fire or flood Paper in the average business grows by 22% a year, meaning your paper will double in 3.3 years U.S. managers spend an average of 4 weeks a year searching for or waiting on misfiled, mislabeled, untracked, or ‘lost’ papers Large organizations lose a document every 12 seconds Productivity Costs of Paper-

7. What Can You Do?

9. Conclusion

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