{"id":8040,"date":"2010-07-26T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:50:24","slug":"paper-waste-student-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/paper-waste-student-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Activists Fight Paper Waste: Use the Backside"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two-sided printing is slowly becoming standard practice in many business and non-profit settings… why recycled a sheet of paper before you’re used it completely? That idea often doesn’t translate, though, when we’re writing by hand or drawing. Students at Atlanta-based design school The Creative Circus<\/a> saw an awful lot of paper being wasted in the concepting process — the sketching out of initial ideas — and decided to show their fellow student and teachers — literally — the amount of paper being discarded that still had half of its useful life left in it.<\/p>\n Last Monday, these students put all of that wasted paper right in front of the school community by “decorating” the walls and ceilings of The Creative Circus with ads they’d created (on the backs of discarded paper) focused on this issue. Paper not used for displays was turned into free notebooks that students and staff could use for their concepting work. Student Sarah Gatling sent me a ton of pictures from the event… here are just a few…<\/p>\n