Producing one tonne of paper requires the same amount of energy as iron or steel.
There are many cases of poor driving which are not getting to court because of the vast amount of paper work required, let alone time for all this to be processed and time in court.
"We've worked out what it would cost - not just to reduce the amount of paper we're producing every day but to wipe it out, " says Caroline Kimbell, head of licensing at the National Archives, the official archive of the UK government.
The paper industry consumes a tremendous amount of energy and raw materials: thin cardboard could cut both.
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Though paper money had increased in amount, prosperity had steadily diminished.
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With the proliferation of computer-based communication, one might have thought that the amount of physical paper sent through the postal service would decline, but it seems to have increased, at least from my perspective.
They argue nations involved in the economic discussions this weekend must make a coordinated effort at bank recapitalization as well as a shared commitment to solving cross-border financial issues, such as dealing with non-U.S. banks that hold a significant amount of American paper.
No one supports the cuts, and that's why no amount of planning can paper over the fact that the cuts are bad policy.
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He says that the FCC paper is only talking about the amount of light that's transmitted to the device, not the efficiency of the device itself.
That article, Shame by Any Other Name, Lessons for Restorative Justice from the Traditions, Principles and Practices of Alcoholics Anonymous, explores the folk healing practices of A.A. Though recovery stories told to me by friends certainly informed that paper, I did an enormous amount of research about the reasons why A.A. is efficacious and the reasons it fails.
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If anything, the millions of rand poured into flashy, paper-shuffling empowerment deals has reduced the amount banks can spare for real black entrepreneurs.
Then there was a paper by Pierre Noel, which got a huge amount of attention in the new year by pointing out that the conventional wisdom on tackling European dependency on Russian gas was all wrong.
The health white paper published in mid-December supposedly abolishes the limited amount of competition between hospitals introduced by the previous Conservative government.
For the reaction to his recent Lancet paper on the successes of the project is facing a certain amount of criticism from other economists and development experts.
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For instance, if Forbes buys paper from a supplier, then that supplier should pay an equivalent amount for subscriptions from us.
Retailers, restaurateurs and gas-station owners have long complained about the so-called interchange fees charged by banks for Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. debit cards, which average roughly 1% to 2% of the total transaction amount far more than similar fees to process paper checks.
Those who've chewed know that a decent amount of cake can be left behind in the carefully pleated paper, and chewing it can satiate the desire for a second cupcake.
The Android approach of coding an operating system and then providing it at a low cost so that hardware manufacturers would drive users towards Google services might have looked attractive on paper, but it would not reach a billion users without a huge amount of time and effort on the part of Facebook.
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His first critique of their result is that the actual amount of fiscal consolidation was larger than planned, so the IMF paper is over-estimating fiscal multipliers.
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Mitra said the traditional system of education is largely based on the necessities created by Britain's colonial empire in which a vast amount of territory had to be governed by people writing things on paper and sending them around the world on ships.
The taxpayer with a traditional paper filing at least must sign the return before mailing, and that imports a certain amount of due diligence.
The paper Dr Moyzis and his colleagues have just published is a ranging shot, but the amount of recent human evolution it has exposed is surprising.
The government is working on measures that will cut the wages, which amount to 70% of the nation's total revenue, Biti told the paper.
But this does not amount to a compelling case for re-election, in the view of either this paper or the American people.
That amount is not likely to be much: Major marketers have been pulling their advertising from the paper in droves in an attempt to distance themselves from the scandal.
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Writing on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun games news site Alec Meer said it was always likely that the game would be funded given the amount of "backlogged adoration" for Planescape.
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