1000 Flowers for the Planet - #463 Unplug Your Printer
This can actually be a fun exercise to do. The suggestion is
that you unplug your printer in your home office. The challenge will work even
better if you also remove the paper to the opposite end of the house. The idea
is that every time you need to print something you will be forced to think
twice, because you will have to get up and go to fetch the paper from the other
end of the house and plug in the
printer before you can use it. Most of us are lazy by nature, and having to take
all these extra steps before printing out a page will often result in not
printing at all. Our laziness can provide us with the opportunity to think of
an alternative action that prevents the use of paper. It
may be that we email a file to someone, save the file to the hard drive, transfer
the file to a memory stick or simply choose not to print at all. This little
trick will alter the way you think about what you print and how much you print.
It will save paper and ink, therefore valuable resources such as trees, reduce
the amount of chemicals and plastics you use, as well as a little bit of
energy. It may seem like insignificant amounts because our private use seems so
small, but when you multiply by millions it all adds up very quickly. At least
give it a try for a couple of months and see how your thinking changes.
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