Making your own jotter pads (note books)

GeordieBird

To make them even more notepad like - stack up the sheets and paint one edge with PVA glue. Squish down with books and leave overnight

There's something very satisfying about tearing off a sheet of "done" tasks!

Have just started a new job where not much recycling seems to get done. Ithink they're trainable though!

Also, with Christmas and birthday cards - cut them up, punch a hole in and use them as gift tags for next year.

I also had another idea for cards. Cut the bit with the message off, fold in half and hey! new card. If everyone does it each year, eventually there'll be really tiny cards, and you might even get your original one back. Is that too much?

jap200

I have had to start being really careful with the paper that I put into my recyling/re-use pile. I work from home as a medical writer and have recently been doing some work on sexual dysfunction and urological disorders. I managed to 'rescue' a picture from my small son's pre-school bag that he was planning to take to show his teacher - it had a lovely big diagram of Peyronie's disease on the other side! (I suggest you only google this when no one else is looking!).

I now have two piles - innocent stuff for the kids to re-use and 'less innocent' stuff for me to re-use!

hbl_2

Since the paperless office is still a long way off, especially in my small firm, I'm looking for ways to reduce the amount of paper I needlessly feed through my printer.

I feels like a bit of an uphill struggle, as my workplace is very paper centric, needing a copy of pretty much everything on file. Being a bit more PC orientated, I've made sure I use email to send documents where-ever possible, but of course these just get printed out at the other end... To my knowledge my firm shreds all waste paper for security and the firm that does this then recycles it.

Any tips for reducing the amount which makes it into the waste-bin?

twobob_2

Firstly theres the simple things: try to print both sides where things don't have to be presentation standard, or even better use the paper saving options (if you have them) on the printer and print maybe 2 pages per a4 side.

The office I work in is trying very hard towards paperless, storage as well as working. We use a program called scansoft pdf creator. This costs about £30 and is great for sending and storing all kinds of info (drawings, documents etc). We also have a large photocopier that scans documents into pdf format, thus keeping an electronic copy.

Good luck with your paperless venture, although it can seem a bit pointless at times when you deal with others who don't do it. Still it all has to start somewhere.

savvy

Hi hbl, I've merged your thread here as this may help with some ideas

emily_jackson

I'm always using paper at the library. My local library has a scrap paper box at the information desk, near the printer and photocopier. I thought it was for staff only, until I asked them, and they said I could use it. Now, rather than taking a notebook to the library, I just take paper from the box, and if I get too many prints or photocopies, I put the paper in the box. We should have these boxes in all classrooms, libraries, etc, so that we could take paper out as well as just putting paper in.

emily_jackson

Some more ideas;
* I've been to seminars/conferences where they give you free notepads. They're for the talks, but I don't to fill them up then, so I use what paper is left when I get home.
* I used to work in a nursery, and we were always desperate for old paper and newspapers.

pavlovs_dog

GeordieBird wrote:

To make them even more notepad like - stack up the sheets and paint one edge with PVA glue. Squish down with books and leave overnight

to make the bond on these even stronger, before you paint with glue, score the edge that will be glued in a criss-cross pattern with a knife/blade - helps the glue bond better apparantly :beer:

pavlovs_dog

envelopes are my biggest paper recycling drive. i dont mind the patterned side, so often cut them down into little squares to top up the jotter block which lives by the phone.

Polotoo

Hi all,
Has anyone used a logmaker to recycle paper? I haven't but they seem a good idea, I haven't got a woodburning stove though but thought I could use them in the chiminea during the summer?!?!? Might help re-use some of the junk mail. I did wonder about buying one and then making up packs to sell on as supposed to be good firelighters?
Any ideas or comments welcome.