 On February 16, 2005, Mayor Greg Nickels issued an Executive Order challenging City departments to reduce paper by 15% by the end of 2005, 30% by the end of 2006 and maintain the 30% reduction levels in 2007.
PaperCuts Green Office Fair: Save the Date and Register Now!
PaperCuts Green Office Fair
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Bertha Landes Room of Seattle City Hall
Join us on Tuesday, December 1, in the Bertha Knight Landes Room in Seattle's City Hall. It's free, and you can drop in at your convenience or stay for the
whole event.
The City of Seattle's PaperCuts Campaign and the Local Hazardous Waste Program in King County welcome you to talks, demos, and trainings for working sustainably. Share your experience and learn from peers who are saving paper, saving time, saving energy, and saving dollars.
This is a green meeting! Register online at
http://pprc.org/greenofficefair2009/
Green Office Fair Schedule (PDF format)
Highlights at this year's Fair:
- Hear about the newest institutional practice to save tons of paper
- Multifunction Printer/Copier demonstrations
- Green Toys and Art Supplies class
- Training on using web-based meetings
- Try out a Segway and electric bikes from City Motor Pool
We'll be posting the full agenda and other details at this website soon.
Feel free to share this invitation with other public agency colleagues.
Please note that Lunch will be on your own this year.
Questions? Contact Shirli.Axelrod@Seattle.gov or Dawn.Blanch@Seattle.gov,
Seattle PaperCuts co-leads, or Tracee Tracee.Mayfield@Kingcounty.gov
- The PaperCuts Steering Committee is delighted to tell you that City Departments achieved 26% paper reduction this year, our best yet, compared to our 2004 baseline.
- The saved paper would make a stack as high as 9 Space Needles! This amount of paper equals 88.6 tons, and saved City Departments $44,000.
- The reduced paper consumption plus continued use of 100% post-consumer-waste recycled paper eliminates almost 400 tons of CO2 equivalent (greenhouse gases).
PaperCuts Results Narrative for 2008 (Word format)
End of Year PaperCuts Report for 2008 - Cumulative paper consumption and percentage reduction by department (Excel format)
PaperCuts evaluated by a Leading Edge Team of city employees - View Evaluation in Powerpoint Format
TIP OF THE MONTH
NW Paper Forum Best PaperCuts Idea Winner!
Linda Olson, Northwest Region, WSDOT
The Northwest Region of the Washington State Department of Transportation wanted a better way of notifying service areas when an employee was hired, changed office or when they left state service. Each service area had their own form that the manager filled out to get services.
The Employee Action Form was created as a more efficient way of notifying service areas. What started as six paper forms became a one-entry online form. It used to take several days and sometimes weeks to get all of the services a new employee needed to do his job.
Now, a manager can input the information into the system, have it approved at a higher level and notify Human Resources along with other service areas in less than a day.
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