Printing, Planet & Pocket!

Now, pretty obviously, if you are aiming to attract people into your premises to spend money in your restaurant in the tourism town of Eguisheim, your print quality needs to be pretty good.

Q. But here, in your coursework do I really need to have you print on one side of a sheet of paper so that it can handle the density of ink needed to produce ‘Premium-Quality‘ print????

A. NO …. and NO again!

• Paper. If you are like me then you hate wasting paper with a passion!  We all have ‘accidentally printed‘ pages which have one used and one ‘clean‘ side.  I am more than happy for you to print your assignments for me on the ‘clean‘ sides of used paper.  It is good for your pocket and good for the planet!   [If for any reason print quality IS an issue in a particular assignment, I will tell you!!]

• Print quality. I know that, in reality (for this particular professional exercise) you would print this in ‘Premium Quality’ (Best), but rather than waste the ink in your print cartridge (did you know that ‘weight-for-weight’ this ink is more expensive than gold!?!?), I am more than happy for you to print in ‘draft‘ quality (‘brouillon‘) for me. As long as it isn’t too faint to read with my getting-older eyes, then I’m happy! Once again, good for the planet and good for the pocket!

If you are interested in reducing waste in your everyday life in order to lower your impact, you may be interested in my family’s progress (a long way from perfect we admit, but we are some way down the route at least!):   Here’s the story!

Then of course there is the Low Impact Life/Living movement and the altogether remarkable Béa Johnson (who got her entire, year-long waste into a medium-sized jam-jar) and her Zero Waste Home lifestyle.  Some things she suggests seem tough to achieve, I’ll admit, but on the upside she claims to have saved 40% of the household expenditure as a result. I read an article a while ago that explained that 8 families in the M2A are trying a 100% Zero Waste lifestyle … I don’t know how they are doing… but just 8 out of 300,000 people?  Here is a young girl not far off your age talking about her approach to zero waste on TED: she saves the weight of an elephant in waste every year.

Makes you think!

Mmmmm… but will it make us act….?

T