Paper wasters.

Lesson for the day, you can't make your teachers feel the same way about something as you do. I have a few teachers who go through trees upon trees of paper. One of my folders is already stuffed full of pointless articles and assignments that could just have easily been e-mailed to us.

Don't get me wrong. I like have hard copies of things but not all the time. If it's a reading that's more than a page I'd like to have the hard copy but if it's a small reading assignment or instructions for an assignment, I'd like them to be e-mailed.

I know that the paper we get comes from farmed tree forests. Farmed tree forests are much different than other forests and tree populations. Farmed tree forests often lead to soil erosion. Regular forests usually help the soil become strong and healthy. Farmed tree forests call for lots of fertilizers and lack variety.

So many students are just going to through their whole folder away and there goes a whole pack of paper in the garbage can. They probably didn't look at any one page for more than 10 minutes.

If I can't get my teachers to understand, maybe you will.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.