So, Spirax note books. These are the yellow ones that most people seem to use. You may be familiar with the calendar page that doubles as an advertisement, which is found at the beginning of the note book. Typically, I tear this out without a second thought but this time I didn’t, and I’m glad I didn’t. The other day, whilst at University, I became a little disinterested and read the ‘Did you know?’ section of said advertisement. One really jumped out at me…

“Paper demand increases by 40% in companies that introduce email systems, because employees tend to print emails before reading them.”

So many people champion the Internet and emails in particular, for saving trees and decreasing our carbon footprint. But, this clearly isn’t the case.