effect of Internet on paper consumption?
Dear all, I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease. Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption? If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not. Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely, Hang Ryeol Na _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
This is a really interesting question, and I'm looking forward to any responses. I would think that you'd want to look beyond copy paper and include shipping materials and cardboard in your analysis. Shipping through e-commerce requires more packaging materials than shipping to a retail store. Ben Spigel Department of Geography The Ohio State University On 9/29/07, Hang Ryeol Na <nhr24@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease.
Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption?
If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not.
Thanks for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Hang Ryeol Na
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Looking for correlations in the total worldwide paper board timber cut with the the popular use of the Internet since 1994? Scott http://scottmacleod.com On 9/30/07, Ben Spigel <spigel.1@osu.edu> wrote:
This is a really interesting question, and I'm looking forward to any responses.
I would think that you'd want to look beyond copy paper and include shipping materials and cardboard in your analysis. Shipping through e-commerce requires more packaging materials than shipping to a retail store.
Ben Spigel Department of Geography The Ohio State University
On 9/29/07, Hang Ryeol Na <nhr24@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease.
Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption?
If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not.
Thanks for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Hang Ryeol Na
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You might want to look at the report by Earthtrends: http://earthtrends.wri.org/features/view_feature.php?theme=6&fid=19. Also, particularly at universities which have Wood and Paper Sciences departments, library holdings will include reports of paper industry statistics, some of which are likely to provide information relevant to your project. See, for example, the "Paper Industry Statistics" section at http://www.library.umaine.edu/science/paper.htm#STATISTICS. In general, reports appear to suggest that paper consumption has increased over time, with the rise in computer use. Meanwhile, reduction of paper consumption has become a major goal of "corporate citizenship" efforts of IT companies like Dell and Sun Microsystems--one of those "environmentally friendly" initiatives. Regards, Lisa Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mass Communication & Women's Studies Editor, Feminist Media Studies Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Arts in Mass Communication Program Mass Communication Williams Hall Miami University-Ohio Oxford, OH 45056 USA Tele: +1 513 529 3547 Fax: +1 513 529 1835 E-mail: mclauglm@muohio.edu ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Hang Ryeol Na [nhr24@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 9:34 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption? Dear all, I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease. Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption? If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not. Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely, Hang Ryeol Na _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Have you looked at The Myth of the Paperless Office (2001) by Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. There is a review with publication details at http://www.techsoc.com/paperless.htm I looked at this a little while ago so can't remember the extent to which the influence of the internet, in particular, is examined. I do remember the book investigated the relationship between the development of information management technologies and the growth in paper use. To quote from the review above: "Figures show an almost linear increase in paper use in recent decades: the introduction of new technology does not get rid of paper; it shifts the ways in which it is used." There were tables and charts depicting the use of timber for paper products over the past couple decades, although being published in 2001 there aren't recent figures. I hope this is of some use. Glenn ******************************************** Glenn Pass PhD Candidate, Internet Studies Associate Lecturer, Information Studies Curtin University of Technology Perth, Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: Hang Ryeol Na [mailto:nhr24@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2007 9:35 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption? Dear all, I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease. Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption? If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not. Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely, Hang Ryeol Na _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
One fine place to start is "The Myth of the Paperless Office" by Sellen and Harper. http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Paperless-Office-Abigail-Sellen/dp/0262194643 Scott Scott Golder Information Dynamics Lab, HP Labs scott.golder@hp.com 1.650.857.2020 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Hang Ryeol Na Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:35 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption? Dear all, I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease. Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption? If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not. Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely, Hang Ryeol Na _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Check out subways and buses.....more people are listening than reading everyday. There is a huge sea change coming at the net generation takes over the work force. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Golder, Scott A. Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:30 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption? One fine place to start is "The Myth of the Paperless Office" by Sellen and Harper. http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Paperless-Office-Abigail-Sellen/dp/0262194643 Scott Scott Golder Information Dynamics Lab, HP Labs scott.golder@hp.com 1.650.857.2020 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Hang Ryeol Na Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:35 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption? Dear all, I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease. Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption? If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not. Thanks for your consideration. Sincerely, Hang Ryeol Na _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Yes, and it's interesting to see how hard companies are trying to capitalize on that shift. Traditional software suites had the focus on paper production (Microsoft Word) and were later employed for production of electronically disseminated documents, but the newer wave of suites (e.g. Writely/Google Docs) is obviously geared toward electronic documents much more so than paper ones. For instance, I have used W/GD in a while, but I remember it did not have a "traditional" viewing layout, where the user could see the edges of a sheet of paper (the default view for suites like MSWord). I think that watching these kinds of signs helps one to make the argument that while the transition to a "paperless office" might not have arrived yet, there is certainly a lot of percolating business chatter about it. Whether that itself and the economic pressures attached to it could induce the transition is the subject of another discussion. ;) Conor Constantine, Norman wrote:
Check out subways and buses.....more people are listening than reading everyday. There is a huge sea change coming at the net generation takes over the work force.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Golder, Scott A. Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:30 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption?
One fine place to start is "The Myth of the Paperless Office" by Sellen and Harper.
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Paperless-Office-Abigail-Sellen/dp/0262194643
Scott
Scott Golder Information Dynamics Lab, HP Labs scott.golder@hp.com 1.650.857.2020
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Hang Ryeol Na Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:35 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] effect of Internet on paper consumption?
Dear all,
I am preparing to write a paper about the effect of internet commerce on paper consumption in terms of sustainable development. As there has been a lot of debate on whether the internet decreased or increased paper consumption, for example, paperless office, online bill and payment, etc. I am interested in what factors contributed to the increase and what others to the decrease.
Do you have any information, or can you provide any resource of the data showing the effect of internet on paper consumption?
If there are any statistics of companies which saved the cost by, for example, making the customers move from the traditional paper bill to online bill, it would be great. It would be even greater if any analysis is available of what made or did not make it possible to save the cost in such a way. I need to understand why there are both success and failure in such cases. My focus is on how to decrease the paper consumption with internet, or, whether it is feasible or not.
Thanks for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Hang Ryeol Na
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It _would_ be interesting to compare the growth of the online population, time spent online, etc., with the growth/decline of paper sales. Have paper sales slumped or grown with the advent of the Internet? I'm sure there's at least one paper industry group that would be able to share numbers with you. Perhaps the Paper Industry Management Association... or Paper Age magazine. Similarly, it might be insightful to look at the growth of document storage firms such as Iron Mountain, Storage Post, etc. Heath -- Heath Row | mediadiet.net this email is: [ ] bloggable [ x ] ask first [ ] private
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