An Australian architect has come up with an idea to save paper waste in the office.
A press release noted that the paperless age is far from reality, and paper still “accounts for 27 percent” of landfill waste, with an average of 10,000 sheets of paper being use in offices annually. 50 percent of this ends up discarded, said the report, but if each individual did something no matter how small it would “help the environment in a big way”.
Jon Yong, an Australian architect, was fed up with seeing “sheets of draft designs” being discarded almost as soon as they left the printer, and designed a solution, the Paper Saver Notebook. This was to help his work colleagues initially, but he decided to market it and help others save paper as well as help the environment.
The simple design consists of a faux leather folder with a sturdy plastic pouch. The scrap paper is folded in half and one side is slid into the pouch ,which makes the paper into a book. It takes 50 pages at a time, and the need for office supply notebooks is void, while the notebook can be replenished continuously with scrap paper.
You can watch the video here:
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