What social, administrative and economic means of influence can lead to a significant reduction in the production and use of paper?
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Dear Vladimir D.
I believe that a slow reduction in the production and use of paper - is the result of actions of lobby and corruptioners.
These days, even many scientific journals, books and conference proceedings continue to be issued in printed form.
Dear Boris,
Actually "paper" feeds a lot of corruptioners. But there is quite a lot and staff who are interested in preserving the "paper."
Dear Vladimir,
ya it is, for example the water pollution that cases of industry is a global environmental damage, the paper, printing equipment and the printing industry is one of the sub- sector of industry can pollutes waters and one of the indexes of water pollution is BOD (kg/day) and it is in world bank data and other site . and also when you cut a tree and make paper, you help to pollution air in absorb not co2, so with more production paper you increase co2 emission.
Dear Parinaz,
thanks for your reply. Could you point me the addresses of reputable sites with such data.
dont mention it. ya you can go on NationMaster.com and choose your country and enviroment. and also world bank have these data.
I am not aware of such data, bu regarding the paper production, things are moving toward better! "The papermaking industry once counted on virgin forests and old-growth trees for pulp, which take hundreds of years to grow and are virtually nonrenewable. But as conservation groups have moved to protect ecologically rich forests and limit commercial access to them, the industry has been moving towards renewable forestry plantations for virgin pulp paper."
Environmental Paper Assesment Tool -EPAT "includes 19 key indicators of environmental performance across the supply chain of paper source, manufacturing and transportation. This allows companies the opportunity to look at the range of environmental considerations from the forest through the manufacturing process and evaluate trade-offs."
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/green-guide/buying-guide/paper/environmental-impact/
https://www.epat.org/Page.aspx?request=14
Dear @Ljubomir, thanks for the links.
It is known that the higher quality of paper, the greater the consumption of water, energy and chemicals.
Production printing equipment and printers is also environmentally unsound.
Dear Vladimir, some data on Water pollution- paper and pulp industry are given by World Bank! Link follows! Interactive map is given! It is very good link actually!
I am going to try to obtain referent data on impact of printing equipment!
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EE.BOD.PAPR.ZS/countries/1W?display=map
Going paperless at universities saves money and efforts. Everybody can quickly access the information needed, fast and when they need it.
"The arguments for tossing the piles of paper are strong. By eliminating paper in file cabinets, for example, a company can create more room and reduce off-site storage costs"
For more information about the subject we can look at the link here-under.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-paperless-offices-work.htm
These days more and more leading organizations are realizing the need to go paperless, among others. In India, companies are required to spend 2 per cent of their net profit on CSR by the new Companies Act, that includes promoting measures preventing environmental degradation. Such measures can indeed be very helpful.
Yes dear @Debi, paperless is the key issue!
https://npcdata.net/eStatements/goGreen.jsp
"According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about one third of the paper made in the U.S. today comes from whole trees and plants, about one third comes from wood chips and scraps, and about one third is recycled from other paper".
For more details, follow the link here-under
http://worldcentric.org/about-compostables/traditional-paper/ecological-damage
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