Read the Newspaper Online
The New York Times and Chicago Tribune cost about $330 a year for home delivery, yet the same articles are online for free. Considering the amount of paper that goes into producing newspapers on a daily basis. Few life changes would help the environment more than reading the newspaper online. According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, the paper industry contributes more to global warming than any other industry worldwide. Harvesting trees for paper reduces the CO2 offset trees normally provide, pollutes our waterways, and create garbage. Paper products are thought to embody a third of all landfill space in our country. The average American office worker prints or copies 10,000 sheets of paper every year, with an average office sending 4 million tons of paper into landfills every year.
The solution is to put down the newspaper and read it online instead, it doesn’t get much easier than that. You’ll save money and save the environment. Its that simple…
THE FACTS
The New York Times and Chicago Tribune cost about $330 a year for home delivery, yet the same articles are online for free.