Paper

What we’re doing

We purchase post-consumer recycled paper for printing on campus.
Marketing materials have high recycle content and are FSC certified in most cases.
Campus printing paper is 30% post-consumer recycled paper.
All printers and photocopiers are set to print double sided aromatically, increasing paper savings.
There is a large-scale paper towel composting program on campus.

Reduce paper usage by switching to emails, USB memory sticks, or online/e-teaching and testing.
Set your software and printers to double-sided as your default.
Decrease margins, and use smaller print on your documents when printing for personal use.
Always recycle waste paper in campus recycling stations or re-use waste printing paper as scrap paper for notes.
Share newspapers and magazines with your cohort or other students by leaving them at the Habitat Café or signing them out from the Library.
There is a large-scale paper towel composting program on campus. You can help this program to be successful by keeping paper towel in its place. Don’t throw it in the garbage, and keep other wastes out of the paper towel bins.
Print multiple PowerPoint slides or multiple PDF pages per page.
Buy used textbooks online or from previous students.

Post class material electronically on Moodle rather than printing materials and handing them out in class.
Have students submit their work electronically and used track changes for comments and marking.
Administer quizzes online rather than on printed paper.

Staff account for 93% of printing on campus.
Students are charged for printing which promotes conservative use. Black and white printing is 10 cents per single sided sheet and 14 cents per double sided sheet. Colour printing is $1.00 per side.