Friday, April 15, 2005

How Many Trees?

This week has been filled with meetings and more meetings and copies.
I decided yesterday, when I had a little time, to do a little math.  I wanted to figure out exactly how many trees I have killed in since Jan for two meetings.  These meetings take place monthly.  I thought I would share my findings:

First off:
.06 Trees = 1 Ream of paper
.6 Trees = 1 carton (10 Reams) of paper
1 Ream of paper = 500 pages
1 Carton of paper = 5000 pages

There fore .6 Trees = 5000 pages

# of pages for Meeting #1
January = 1350
February = 975
March = 2575
April = 2275
A total of 7175 pages or .86 trees

# of pages for Meeting #2
January = 1260
February = 1200
March = 4980
April (estimated) = 3270
A total of 10710 pages or 1.29 trees

So – in the course of 4 months I have killed 2.15 trees for two monthly meetings.  Boy am I proud!