EP PAPER MOUNTAIN
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITN NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN parliamentarian has called for his institution to stop producing 3.5 million sheets of printed paper every week. This amounts to each MEP using more than 1,000 sheets every day in Brussels and Strasbourg. Dutch socialist member Michiel Van Hulten has called for a significant reduction, especially as printed agenda, minutes and memos are irregularly recycled. Van Hulten says that given the availability of electronic communications, this waste of paper and ink is unnecessary.
A EUROPEAN parliamentarian has called for his institution to stop producing 3.5 million sheets of printed paper every week. This amounts to each MEP using more than 1,000 sheets every day in Brussels and Strasbourg. Dutch socialist member Michiel Van Hulten has called for a significant reduction, especially as printed agenda, minutes and memos are irregularly recycled. Van Hulten says that given the availability of electronic communications, this waste of paper and ink is unnecessary.
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