I was reading an article in Information Age this weekend on Printing Costs. The article is about the costs and management solutions available for sorting out the costs of printing.

The article starts out with one of those scary statistics:

Each day in the UK, 523 million pieces of printed paper are thrown away by office workers.

I'll ignore the 'thrown away' comment - I really hope that a large quantity of that is recycled, but whatever the destination, the figure is still scary. 523 million sheets of printed paper are thrown away each day. Whether that is mistakes, reports that needed edits, or any one of a million other possibilities doesn't matter - that is a lot of paper, a lot of toner or ink, and vast quantities of printer wear and tear that is being wasted each day.