Sentences with phrase «millions of sheets of paper»

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In a period of one year (2010 - 2011), the company saved 2.5 million sheets of paper, a 28 % drop in paper use from the year before, noted Laurence.

Not pausing for lunch, they spend their days passing 900,000 sheets through each copier, pounding 20 million strokes on every electric typewriter, sitting down on the same chair 20,000 times, and outputting 7,500 sheets of paper from every printer.

A couple of years ago, the Centenaris decided to invest roughly $ 1 million in the corrugator, the giant machine that turns big rolls of brown paper into the corrugated sheets that will eventually become boxes.

The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

The company plans to start its conversion by phasing more than a million cage - free eggs into its products, sparing nearly 4,000 birds each year from being crammed inside tiny cages that provide each hen less space than a sheet of paper to spend her entire life.

«Normally, at a big conference like Rio +20, we would have used more than 20 million sheets of paper,» said Magnus Olafsson, who heads a new United Nations» initiative known as PaperSmart.

If the conference saved 19 million sheets of standard copy paper (and from attending some past events I can vouch that not all documents are on such inexpensive paper), that might translate into saving the lives of some 2,275 trees.

In 1949, when Claude Shannon took a sheet of paper and penciled his outline of the measures of information, the scale went from tens of bits to hundreds to thousands, millions, billions, and trillions.

But, when all the paper used for administration processes is included, the total increases to around one million sheets per year — this equates to a yearly spend of # 60,000 on printing and photocopying, money that could be put to better use, such as to enhance learning.

Dr. Pollard and Dr. DeConto ran a five - million - year computer simulation of the ice sheet's comings and goings, using data on past actual climate and ocean conditions gleaned from seabed samples (the subject of the other paper) to validate the resulting patterns.

The Mercer (1978) ``... a threat of disaster» paper introduced above was fraught with presumptions, guesswork, and spectacularly wrong predictions about the connections between fossil fuel consumption by humans and future carbon dioxide (CO2) parts per million (ppm) concentrations, the melting of polar ice sheets, and an impeding sea level rise disaster.

Actually, you'd only need 1.5 to 43 million sheets, depending on your definition of mountain (300 to 3000 meters) and thickness of paper (70 to 200 microns).

The switch will save about 16 million sheets of paper and 326,000 gallons of fuel a year.

At any given time legal organisations are processing staggering amounts of electronic and paper - based information - a law firm with 100 staff will typically consume two million sheets of paper per annum alone.

The NFL struck a $ 400 million to replace all 32 of its teams» paper playbooks with Surface Pro 3 devices and they initially didn't go to good use, being placed under the clipboards and the old sheets of paper those tablets were supposed to replace.