How much paper do you generate in your UFE attempt? How much do we all?
I think I stumbled upon the answer earlier tonight.
It's at least 10 kilograms.
I also found that half that is roughly enough paper to fill up a small blue box.
I vowed to myself to clean up the insane jumble of papers in my room once I got the UFE out of the way - after all, if I want a
larger monitor, I need room for it!
So I realized that before I disposed of my now obsolete notes and practice papers, I should weigh my paper basket before taking its contents to the curb.
The bathroom scale read 5 kg, and I can tell that I only disposed of no more than half my papers today.
If you were to count the copies of your UFE that get printed at the exam marking centre in Montreal (double spaced,
and in duplicate), the total might even approach 15 kg.
Assuming 2500 writers going through an average of 15 kg of paper, that means the UFE consumes roughly 37.5 tons of paper every year.
I hope the other writers and offices are as conscientious about recycling as I am - I used the single-sided paper for scrap - my scrap drawer is now full. I'm glad
my printer takes the 'abuse' of printing on slightly used paper without complaints.
At the risk of sounding like a raving
fanboy, I'm shocked to read that my beloved workhorse only got 3.5 stars on
Amazon reviews - although it's in no doubt due to jackasses like
Mr. Wang who got a lemon and decided to bash Brother with a one instead of doing something intelligent like maybe exchanging the printer for a working unit - he said quality died after 8 months.
I know quality products. We still run an
HP500 Deskjet and it kicks ass. On the other hand, the
HP660c was an
unmitigated disaster masquerading as a printer.
Mr. Wang clearly exemplifies the fact that you can't rely on a single random person's opinion on online review sites. And yes, I recognize the irony of me saying that after making my own "one man's opinion" review of three printers - in my defense, I've seen several different printers of the same model for all three, and my opinion stands for all of them.
So the lesson learned today is how much paper the UFE wastes, and - thanks to a completely random tangent - only trust a man or woman's opinion on a printer if they've been exposed to more than one.