Are paperless offices way of future?
The paperless office. It is supposed to be the way of the future. All documents are supposed to be in electronic form and fewer trees are supposed to be required to keep businesses, institutions and government humming along. Cutting down on paper use is a very good thing. World consumption of paper has grown approximately 400 per cent in the last 40 years. Nearly 4 billion trees are used annually for paper, which represents 35 per cent of the global timber harvest. Some of these trees are from managed timberlands, which practise sustainable forestry, however, a tree is a tree. Any tree not used for paper could be used for building, replacing a tree logged using less sustainable forestry practices. So, have offices become paperless? We look around our offices and we certainly see paper. We have notebooks filled with handwritten notes keeping track of various projects, we have data from our laboratories, we have sticky notes containing phone numbers and appointments and some seemingly ra
