facts about paper

recycling

Documents that we shred are recycled - making new paper from recycled paper uses 30 -50% less energy than making paper from trees and it reduces contributions to air pollution by 95%

saving trees

For every 1,000 kilos of paper recycled (that’s about 75 archive boxes), approximately 14 trees and 2 cubic metres of landfill space can be saved.

During normal office hours through our 8 offices thecabinetoffice has the capacity to scan over 1,000,000 pages of paper every week, that’s 500 archive boxes - nearly 100 trees saved every week!

dissappearing time

According to the Wall Street Journal the average executive loses an average of six weeks per year retrieving misplaced information from cluttered desks and files

paper growth

Paper in the average business grows by 22% a year, meaning your paper would double every 3.3 years!

data loss

15% of paper documents are misplaced