Dump paper to save treesFriday 12 Apr 2013
Yet, federal employees are still printing hundreds of millions of pages a year as part of their day-to-day duties. The average employee in some federal departments uses more than 12,000 sheets of paper a year — in excess of 50 sheets per workday — and the government is looking to chop the number of sheets and trees civil servants use in their daily work. As Ottawa slowly moves toward going paperless, the government is looking to trim paper consumption in most departments by 20 per cent over a couple of years and cut the number of printers used in federal offices by as much as 75 per cent. The federal reports show workers in the Department of Justice Canada, for example, each consumed an average of 12,999 sheets of internal office paper a year as of March 31, 2011 (most recent data available). That amounts to potentially more than 50 million pages printed in one year for the roughly 4,000 workers listed as being employed by the department at the time. Treasury Board president Tony Clement has said he’s working on having the federal government slowly go paperless by using tablet-style computers and other new-age technology available to politicians and bureaucrats. Check out this website for the paper story, www.twosides.us. The Ottawa Citizen | ||
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