Recylcling paper is actually old news. Most of us who grew up in cities will have memories of men pushing carts to take away used bottles and old newspapres for some loose change.
"Bote! Dyaryo!"
For most of us, this is our fist experience at recylcling, and it was a two-for-the-price-of-one-experience–old newspapers are taken away, and as children we learn about recylcling while making a few centavos to buy some candy with.
So now those kids have grown up. Coffee has replaced candy in the list of priorities. Most cafes and fast food places now serve the daily newspaper too, and unless you are unemployed and regularly buying the paper to check for jobs, chances are, there is no growing pile of newspapers in some corner of your house, waiting for that familiar "bote, dyaryo" call. Besides, what’s happened to these men with carts anyway? They have sometimes become unwelcome in most haousing subdivisions and in office blocks where we now spend 8 hours or more of our daily lives.
In our often air-conditioned office jobs, unfortunately, recycling paper just means printing and/or writing on both sides of the sheets of paper before they find their way to the rubbish bin. By doing this, we make ourselves believe that we have done our part, saved some trees, and contributed to the welfare of the environment.
You know what’s coming. You know that ain’t enough.
You can take it a step furhter, because used bond papers, computer papers, newspapers, magazines, cardbaord boxes and even shredded office files can be recycled locally by companies like Papersavers.
Papersavers is a major contributor in the the campaign for the prper disposal of waste peper in the r egion. They have been purchasing scrap papers from major printing companies for 5 years now. Their suppliers have grown considerably, including top corporations with businesses in banking, finance and insurance. They collect, segregate and dipose of scrap papers to paper mills in the country and for export.
It doesn’t require a lot of effort or take too much of your time. You can request for boxes to store your scrap papers in, then choose a schedule for pick up. It can be daily, weekly, quarterly, or even once a year–when the spring cleaning bug hits you. They even provide a security contract to ensure the confidentiality of the docu ments they buy from you.
Did we say buy? Of course. You can help save trees and buy your coffee too.