PaperLess

Paper is very close to the activity of writing. It can be said that a civilization begins with a paper, the paper uses related to its function as a medium for writing.

But besides the good effects of a sophistication there are adverse effects that may arise as environmental pollution from industrial wastes such as waste disposal. Examples of the use of paper in various activities such as school, office, or company that produces a lot of waste paper.

When examined using continuous paper can reduce the number of trees in the forest so that it would damage the environment on earth and have an impact on global warming. In a blog http://bungarumput.depsos.org (dowwnload dated 21-11-2001) by Prof. Dr.. Sudjarwadi (UGM), 1 ream of paper equivalent to 1 5-year-old trees. For every ton of pulp requires 4.6 cubic meters of timber, and 1 ton of pulp produced 1.2 tons of paper. 1 ha of plantation forests (acacia) can produce approximately 160 cubic meters of wood. If the annual production of 3 million tons of pulp, it requires 86,250 acres of forest.

The regeneration of acacia plants grow quite long, which is 6 years old, causing the pulp industry needs more forests to operate. Based on data from the Ministry of Forestry in 1997, the total production capacity of the timber industry in Indonesia is equivalent to 68 million m ^ 3 logs. The capacity is 3 times larger than the capacity of forests of Indonesia to produce sustainable wood. As a result, a lot of paper industry raw materials from natural forests, and compounded by not doing reforestation.

Habit of using excessive paper turns a bad impact on the environment, paper-based of trees that are beneficial for human life when its use is sometimes wasted on the world such as school habit of using paper sometimes wasted without maximizing the use of paper The. Such as canvas used to draw something, used as a medium to calculate manually, using paper only on one side, to throw a friend, until the media to share answers on tests and that is ultimately the papers just thrown into the garbage.

Entering today's technological era, which from time to time always making progress and sophistication, all the existing technology is designed to help facilitate the process of human labor in line with the concept of "Less Is More", this is the first time in print in a poem titled Andrea del Sarto in 1855 by Robert Browning, and then the phrase is often associated with a named architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Rohe, because of the simplicity of the style in every design, but still has meaning and significance of the maximum or broad.

            Less Is More which means anything that means more or fewer can be interpreted also something that is simple, if accumulated, the effects are great. Effectiveness and efficiency of the factors to be an emphasis.

Therefore there was counterposed a new idea called Paperless. An initial estimate Paperless idea created in a Business Week article in 1975. Ideas related to the concept of paperless Less Is More, which means anything that can weigh down a little more. The purpose of paperless itself is with a bit of paper usage means we help in environmental conservation that aims to preserve the ecosystem of the earth so that there awake.