Paper and more paper

Do computers save paper? Years ago when we got the first "compact" computers at the court house there was a fear that computers would replace jobs and we thought they would save paper.

Both of these theories are false. It takes people to run computers and we kill a zillion trees to feed the paper hungry programs. Because it's possible to have more, faster and ridiculous amounts of information available we do.

Much of the paper produced has private information so it has to be shredded. Last week there was a truck from a shredding company up here so we had a big push to purge. I had such a pile in my office one day that I just had to take a picture. Even more came from the basement storage room.


So just how many trees have we killed with pin feed computer paper? Even more concerning is that I listened to all that paper print - those printers were loud.