Paper or plastic...

Actually, we'll just talk about paper today... Recycling paper to be specific; recycling paper at work, to be exact...
You see, I work in an office where we use a tremendous amount of paper, and at least a quarter of what we use is thrown away. Before I was there, they used much more paper, but I was able to convince them to go at least a little less paperless.
We've looked into recycling services, but it seems that the entire building has to join the service or they won't pickup. I think that's pretty lame. We're offering to pay these people to come pickup some paper (what their business does, anyway), but they won't...

At the moment, one of the people in the office takes it all home and puts it out on the curb with his personal recycling. Of course this just doesn't seem right to me. He shouldn't have to haul it home just so our office can recycle our paper... So what to do....

At home, we recycle pretty much everything we possibly can. There's just no reason not too. Of course since we don't have curbside recycling either, we have to haul it to our local Wild Oats and dump it in their community recycle bin. It works for us, but is still not the best solution.

I was reading Green Living last night (at least I think I read it there), and they wrote that although the three "R"s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) are known by most Americans, we only pay attention to the last "R". It's true. I know that when I think about waste conservation, I mainly think of recycling. Although, I do find myself naturally reducing and reusing. That, of course, is another topic altogether...
-S