However, it is far way behind of the idea to reduce the paper consumption, even though environmental organisations may talk of green initiatives. It is a heavy burden on Australia's ecological sustainability due to the act of paper-want. The process of paper production required more water and trees to produce one tonne of virgin printer paper, but only 25% of each tree is used to produce the paper product.
As a student, I realized we use a lot of paper for our project submissions. Base on my opinion, government should implement the limitation of paper usage in the university. We may submit our assignments through online or present our work digitally, instead of submitting hard copy such as papers or presentation board.
Besides that, government may introduce new software about free paper-saving. Each student or lecturer may use this software to help save paper by removing wasteful content when printing and reformatting the documents to print double sided with more efficiently.
By using recycled paper instead of virgin printer paper able to improve the sustainability for the environment. It can also reduce the cost by using recycled paper which made from non-tree sources such as bamboo, banana, hemp and etc. Students may also use laptop or notepad to take note in order to reduce the usage of notebook or paper.
References:
https://individualizedfunding.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/file000465594297.jpg
http://www.wikihow.com/Save-Paper-in-School
http://www.sustainablelivingguide.com.au/work/save-paper-and-forests
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/E1E64A4DB813BC8BCA25732C00207FF7?opendocument
http://www.australianscience.com.au/environmental-science/paper-consumption-impact-in-australia/
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