Brett Barton
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A Paper Free Britain?
2nd April 2008 09:24
Today’s Coventry Evening Telegraph includes an article discussing local businesses being encouraged to ‘go – green’ in an attempt to save up to £1 million pounds by cutting down excess energy and water as well as reducing company refuse and becoming a ‘paper free’ business.
Swapping your ‘Intray’ for your ‘Inbox’ is something we are seeing more and more. Most of us are now familiar with the common tagline at the bottom of your emails asking people ‘Not to print this e-mail unless you really need to’.
The local community seems to have embraced this message with The Coventry Building Society asking its members to go online and submit their vote in preparation for their annual meeting with not a ballot slip in sight. Furthermore, The Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry is pioneering new ‘digivey’ machines that enable their visitors to record all their feedback and comments on state of the art, interactive, touch-screen stations. Business it seems, can be done by the touch of a button. (But perhaps not insolvency yet; looking at the amount of paper in my intray)
Saving money is obviously of the utmost importance to any business and cutting down on waste is both business and environmentally friendly but could Britain really work as a completely paper free nation?
In a business world where daily news is now emailed to our inbox, surely the demise of printed stationary and print media is likely to have a knock-on effect to these businesses somewhere along the line? But for now Britain seems happy to be doing everything we can to make the cut backs. So, as they say, can the last one to leave the office please switch out the lights?
