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

Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

• 31,780 litres
    of water

Producing
one tonne of recycled paper saves:

• 4100 kilowatt
    hours of electricity

Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

• 75 per cent of
    chlorinated bleach

 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.

Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

• 27 kilograms
    of air pollutants

Producing one tonne of recycled paper saves:

• 13 – 24 trees

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

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

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

• 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.

Collect old bicycles which get reused by getting melted.

Use eBooks in the forest library