Steered by the Campus Sustainability Committee (CSC) and Campus Sustainability Office (CSO), the PaperReduction@PolyU campaign aims to raise awareness of all on campus to reduce their reliance on paper and leverage on collaborative efforts to conserve paper resources. Under this campaign and in the financial year 2017/18, the University successfully reached the target in reducing paper consumption on a university-basis by an overall 10%, focusing on office-use printing paper. With this encouraging and overwhelming response from the PolyU community, the University will review the paper consumption patterns and identify paper reduction opportunities continuously.
The University will also release analysis and updates about paper reduction on campus on the PaperReduction@PolyU website. Compared with that in the year 2017, paper consumption in the third and fourth quarter of 2018 decreased by -13% and -9% respectively. Stay tuned with us for updates by visiting the statistics page of the campaign website at https://www2.polyu.edu.hk/greencampus/paperreduction/statistics.php.