Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Amazed how I get so much paper? I'm more amazed how you could be such a hater!
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.
When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
