Not quite the paperless office
… but it seems per capita paper consumption is going down in the developed world.
We might not have quite achieved the paperless office, but it is getting closer…
And there is good news about increasing drinking of tap water in restaurants hidden in this story, but I’m not exactly astonished, but slightly bemused, that apparently one in five people are “too scared or nervous” to ask for it.
Lesson one: you are the customer. Ask for what you want!
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The sole reason for the reduction of paper in the developed world can be put down to the innovation we instituted in our office. We’re a ragbag collective of seven PhD students. Since a couple of us started insisting people printed more out on scrap paper we must have saved a veritable forest.
Comment by a very public sociologist — February 13, 2008 @ 7:40 pm