3214 Pounds of paper 482 dollars in Disposal fees a New break room for the staff priceless

Thinking of going paperless? I’ll share an office story with you!

As many of you know, we are 90% paperless. Basically, if you hand us paper, we’ll scan it and hand it back. All our client files are now stored electronically as we try to not keep paper files in house. That said, it hasn’t always been that way, which brings me to the latest!

We’re doing some remodeling of the office, to do that, we needed to clear out a couple of old file rooms that were wall to wall paper, much of which were dead files….e.g., paper from over 10 years ago or more, clients long gone, businesses long defunct, you get the drift.. Long story short, it amounted to 3,214 pounds of worthless paper. Called the shredding company to come in and got dinged for $482 for disposing all. Not to mention the square footage of useable space this paper was taking up or the cost of the reams of paper to begin with (or if we want to go greener, how many trees!)

So, if you’re wondering if there are monetary virtues to going paperless, well….this will be one of the last times we have to shell out that much $$ to shred weight like this load! Plus the staff will be happy with their new break room in the end!

Steven A. Feinberg - www.AppletreeBusiness.com - Get Appletree Blog via Email!