Paper is the most common office supply item that is seen in today’s offices. With all the paper we use, we need other pieces of equipment to handle and store it such as paperclips, hole punches, paper clips, staplers, folders and filing cabinets.
Wood is made from trees in a process of turning it into wood pulp and then compressing the fibres to make paper. Paper comes in packs of 500 which is called a ream and printers and photocopiers are designed to hold a complete ream of paper in their input trays. In many office environments wasted paper is refereed to as dead trees and because they are a valuable resource on the planet there is more emphasis on recycling paper.
35% of the world’s supply of paper comes from recycled paper, which equates to about 85 tonnes of paper or about one million trees. Some areas suffer from a lack of paper collection and recycling points due to the cost of running such a scheme as due to the fluctuation price of new paper it can be not cost effective.