Paper is a really useful material at school, but it is still good to find ways to avoid wasting it.
Many of the tips for offices (see here) apply to schools too, like not printing single-sided and using the blank side of waste paper for scribbling notes on. Teachers can take care to photocopy handouts efficiently, and pupils can make sure to use every page in a notebook. Sometimes information can be circulated to pupils and staff electronically, rather than on paper.

How about a School Paper Inventory?

For a school project, why not watch all the many ways that paper objects are used over a few days, then try to find out how much paper is used by the school as a whole. If you do a school paper inventory like this, you will almost certainly spot ways that paper waste can be reduced.

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Here’s a factsheet about how to save paper in school. A case study about Bradford University’s paper saving achievements is here.

The following handbook is written for use in adult education. It is a tool to set up lessons that teach on one hand about the origin of paper and on the other provide tools to create a plan to reduce paper use in the direct surroundings of the students.