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Facts

Using recycled paper uses 60% less energy than manufacturing paper from virgin timber.
One ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources and uses 24 trees. If this paper is 100% recycled content, no new trees are used.
Producing recycled paper causes 74 percent less air pollution, 35 percent less water pollution, and creates 5 times the number of jobs as producing virgin paper does.

Buy used books.
- Use Dartmouth's Exchange to find used books and to sell your own
Print double-sided and use bleach-free 100 % recycled paper as much as possible.
Reuse paper that has been used on one side. Possibilities include notes, drafts, and sketches. Or put it back in your personal or office printer. There are also one-sided paper drop boxes by most of the Greenprint stations around campus.
Edit papers on your computer instead of printing them.
When you can, do your reading for your classes online instead of printing out articles.
Take notes for class on your laptop.
Instead of handing in hard copies, ask your professors if you can blitz them your assignments.
Adjust page margins, line spacing and font-size to reduce page-length for documents that must be printed.
Use a dry-erase board instead of sticky notes to write reminders to yourself.
Reuse 3-ring binders from last term.
Buy reusable and durable supplies such as rechargeable batteries and mechanical pencils. All the local bookstores sell post-consumer waste notebooks, bond paper and flashcards.
Buy supplies with the maximum post-consumer recycled content available.