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Thanks for the “paperwork reduction act!”
Can you imagine the amount of trees saved over the last number of years since the implementation of this “reduction act?” Not being a scientist one can only assume millions of trees and trillions of linear feet of wood still now grow renewing our oxygen supply for many years to come. That is a very good thing!
However, from observation in daily living, paper and paperwork has expanded in its usage over the last 2 decades. Ranging from our daily consumption of paid receipts, telephone, electric, oil, and gas bills, to the documents involved with our professions, paper is everywhere…covered with ink.
Two-page telephone or electric bills have expanded to 10 – 15 pages…front and back. Grocery or drug-store receipts now have an abundance of coupons and rebates, all being tracked by “our bonus cards.” (Somewhere someone is writing down on paper all these transactions) Purchases that used to take 1 page of documentation now have, in many cases, swelled to 30 pages.
Our lives have become busier having to keep track of all of this paper and now I fear for metal. We must have metal for the filing cabinets needed to store the paper, that has been…One can only imagine what would have happened had we not “reduced paperwork?”
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