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wasting too much paper?

i work in a billing officei go through two trash cans a day! just wasting paperany ideas on how to get my office to start recycling on a large scale?

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2 Al + 6 HCl → 2 AlCl3 + 3 H2 (0.035 L) x (2.0 mol/L HCl) x (2 mol Al / 6 mol HCl) x (26.98154 g Al/mol) 0.63 g Al
I think recycling is a good thing for certain products for instance aluminum but products like paper it's a double edge sword imo.why is because paper breaks down quickly unlike plastic, metal etc so is the cost and pollutants (there are lots of pollutants when a product is recycled!) of recycling paper worth it when it can easily biodegrad? I feel caught in the cross hairs on that one really.you could ask/go to the head of the company or send e-mail however it is done there and see if they will put recycling cans (small usually blue plastic garbage cans with white recycle logo it) around the office, we now have them in our building for all the junk mail that comes in and it does come in handy, I will recycle all the juink and news ads etcthat come inThat's one idea another would be to utilize programs like excel for billing but I think in a field such as yours there will always be a paper trail unfortunately.good luck!

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