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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recyce

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recyce

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Make paper from ‘waste’ paper.

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle

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paper note pads or cards can be sold to parents.

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle

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Make paper from ‘waste’ paper.

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle

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What you can do to reduce, reuse and recycle

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Reuse ice_cream containers and jars for the shed or at school.

Collect old bicycles which get reused by getting melted.

Use eBooks in the forest library

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An
area the size of the Australian Capital Territory is logged every year in
Australia. Over half of this wood is wood-chipped for paper pulp.

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Since European
settlement, almost half of Australia's forests have been cleared.

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Australians use
approximately 3.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard annually – enough to fill 160,000
large semi-trailers.

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It takes 24
trees to create one tonne of virgin office paper (that is paper with no
recycled content).

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One way that we came up with is useing ebooks, they are quick and efficent, easy to read and save paper in the forrest library.

Instead of importing 1000 books a year we would only need around 500.

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Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

13 – 24 trees

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Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

27 kilograms
of air pollutants

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There are many different ways to reduce paper wastage in the library:

Only buy books for the library that are of interest to the students and their needs (this can be done with surveys)

Instead of throwing out books, sell them so the library and school can use the money. This is a win-win situation.

Change the default settings on the printers to print double sided. It will halve the amount of paper used.

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Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

75 per cent of
chlorinated bleach

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Producing
one tonne of recycled paper saves:

4100 kilowatt
hours of electricity

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Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

31,780 litres
of water

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In Australia we use on average 230kg of paper per person per year