Paper Chase: Tackling Companies’ Wasteful Printing Habits
Paper Chase: Tackling Companies’ Wasteful Printing Habits
Have you ever considered how many kinds of paper we use and handle every day?
Newspaper, office-printed paper, tickets, bills, banknotes, receipts, books, napkins, bags, food packaging, toilet paper, and health certificates (especially during the Covid-19 pandemic) are some of the common paper-based products we hardly give a second thought to.
As of 2018, the total global production of paper and cardboard was about 420 million tons per year, but this amount is expected to rise.
In fact, researchers speculated this number would reach 490 million tons by 2020. For a world so entrenched in the digital age, this amount feels excessive and unnecessary.