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Fenland College: Green Action Plan

by Kat Kozak

3500 students and 300 staff

approximately 175 classrooms with 26 different subject areas

3 printers per classroom / 2 printers per subject area

= x 65

Printing practices New equipment Re-manufactured cartridges 100% post consumer recycled paper Recycling Ink-efficient font Digital storage solutions Printing Balance

18, 266 kWh of energy 272, 956 CO energy and paper emissions 137, 547 kg of paper 184, 185 of energy and paper costs

power off every day pull printing duplex printing

HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One This award-winning ENERGY STAR qualified multifunction series offers several features to reduce paper waste, including automatic two-sided printing and copying, a junk fax blocker,1 and the ability to fax to a network folder or email and scan to a computer. Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) recognized the HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series with its award for Outstanding Achievement in Energy Efficiency. In fact, the HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series uses up to 50% less energy than color laser printers in its class. Help reduce the environmental impact of every page you print. Use up to 70% less supplies and packaging by weight compared with color laser printers. The HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series also delivers professional color printing at up to 50% lower cost per page than color laser printers in its class.

HP Color LaserJet CM4540 MFP

This ENERGY STAR qualified multifunction powerhouse doesn't just combine printing, scanning, copying, and faxing into one package. It also has HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology, for energy savings of up to 50%. A built-in imagepreview function avoids waste from printing mistakes, and HP FutureSmart Firmware allows you to easily update and extend capabilities, lowering the cost of future replacement.

TonerGreen is an eco-friendly printer supplies retailer that has been providing environmental responsible printing solutions since April 2009 under the name TonerforEarth.com. Its main product line includes U.S.-made remanufactured toner cartridges and remanufactured inkjet cartridges that are highly compatible to replace printer cartridges in printers under popular brand names such as HP, Brother, Canon, Dell, Lexmark and Xerox.

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using 20 cases of 100% post-consumer waste rather than non-recycled paper saves the following resources

13 x 273 x
+ enough energy to power an average household for 37 days + 18.5 thirty-two gallon garbage cans + 1,039 pounds of greenhouse gases (equivalent of carbon sequestered by about 13 tree seedlings grown for ten years)

14-year-old Suvir Mirchandani was trying to think of ways to cut waste and save money at his Pittsburgh-area middle school as a science-fair project. Interested in applying computer science to promote environmental sustainability, Suvir decided he was going to figure out if there was a better way to minimize the constant flurry of paper and ink used for the handouts he got every day. Collecting random samples of teachers' handouts, Suvir concentrated on the most commonly used characters (e, t, a, o and r). First, he charted how often each character was used in four different typefaces: Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans. Then he measured how much ink was used for each letter, using a commercial tool called APFill Ink Coverage Software. Next he enlarged the letters, printed them and cut them out on cardstock paper to weigh them to verify his findings. He did three trials for each letter, graphing the ink usage for each font. From this analysis, Suvir figured out that by using Garamond with its thinner strokes, his school district could reduce its ink consumption by 24% and realized that by making the change his school could save as much as $21,000 annually. In case of the Fenland College, choosing the right font could translate to saving at least 10,000 annually.

EchoPaper: https://www.echopaperstore.com/plant-a-treeprogram.php

Suvir Mirchandanis Font Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-moneysaving-typeface-garamond-schools/

Class Sizes Study: http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/whyclasssizematt ers

HP Carbon Footprint Calculator: http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/ecological-printingsolutions/carbon-footprint-calc.html

TonerGreen: http://www.tonergreen.com/about-us

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