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Article: CHAMBER CITES FIRMS FOR 'GREEN' INITIATIVES
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2008
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In 2007, Atlas Van Lines began keeping track of how many pages
its employees were printing.
Through regular e-mails, the company would inform the staff of
the numbers. At the same time it would give advice on how to cut
back; e-mails, for instance, could be saved on a computer rather
than printed and placed in a file.
"It was more for awareness," said Barbara Cox, Atlas director of
marketing communications. "Let's show you how much you are printing
each month."
The campaign resulted in Atlas' cutting its consumption of paper
by 1.1 million pages in 2007 and by 750,000 pages up to June of this
year. It also led to the company's winning a John Biasini
Environmental Excellence Award for its ...