World Paper Free Day is celebrated today
The best part about World Paper Free Day is that you don’t have to wrap presents, mail cards, or send out invitations. Indeed, those very activities are frowned upon. The event, sponsored by AIIM, is intended to call attention to and look for ways to reduce the use of paper in business organizations.
It’s easy to think of World Paper Free Day as having an environmental focus to it, in that saving paper by extension saves trees and produces less waste that needs to be disposed of. However, there are other reasons to save paper, as well.
“Paper is only a symptom,” writes AIIM’s Bryant Duhon. “The real purpose of WPFD is to draw attention to how you can improve your business by automating manual (paper-based) processes. Paper slows you down. Time to speed up.”