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Ill-fitting office furniture causes pain in half of Brit workers

By Paperstone on 21 June 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

More than half (55 per cent) of British workers complain that the wrong kind of office furnituregives them back aches and pains, while 15 per cent find that using the wrong office equipmentsuch as computer keyboards leads to wrist ache and repetitive strain injury (RSI), new research has revealed. These problems are often caused by […]

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Aberdeen council looks to recycle office supplies

By Paperstone on 20 June 2007 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments

Aberdeen city council is to offer its schools, community centres and council offices a new range of recycled office supplies, as it strives to find environmentally friendly office equipment solutions. The council will be including a local Creative Waste Exchange in its new office products purchasing catalogue, allowing customers access to a range of re-used […]

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US residents enjoy town-sponsored paper-shredding day

By Paperstone on 19 June 2007 in Shredders & Supplies with 0 Comments

Around 100 residents from a US town were able to dispose of old documents for free recently, after a giant Paper shredder was installed at a local recycling centre. The Paper shredder was made available by Secure EcoShred of Brookfield and was sponsored by the town council of Redding, reports The Redding Pilot. It got […]

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One in five staff admit taking office supplies

By Paperstone on 19 June 2007 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments

One in five office staff in the US have admitted to taking office supplies from the workplace for their own personal use in the past 12 months. In a survey conducted by staffing firm Spherion, 19 per cent of employees suggested they had nicked office supplies from work to then use at home – a […]

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HP’s storage offerings cut costs by half

By Paperstone on 19 June 2007 in Ink Cartridges And Toners with 0 Comments

Hewlett-Packard (HP), one of the world’s leading printer supplies firms, has introduced new greener storage technology which it claims can cut power and cooling costs in data centres by 50 per cent. The printer supplies giant revealed the new Adaptive Infrastructure offerings at its Americas StorageWorks Conference. According to analyst firm StorageIO Group, 37 to […]

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Eco-friendly office environment tips revealed

By Paperstone on 6 June 2007 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments

Office supplies can often be wasted by firms, but with recycling gaining more and more significance in the UK today, Ecotopia has come up with some hints to help make offices more eco-friendly. The ethically-minded firm has urged businesses to re-think their buying practices, revealing that in Britain 20 million tonnes of refuse each year […]

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Women targeted by office furniture suppliers

By Paperstone on 6 June 2007 in Office Furniture with 0 Comments

Office furniture suppliers in the US are targeting female entrepreneurs, reports abcmoney.co.uk. After highlighting the fact that much of the office furniture available to businesses was geared at larger people, many firms are developing their offerings to meet the demands of a growing number of new female business owners. Women-owned small businesses are growing at […]

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HP wants to make printing web pages simpler

By Paperstone on 31 May 2007 in Ink Cartridges And Toners with 0 Comments

Printer supplies specialist Hewlett-Packard (HP) has recently unveiled ‘Print 2.0’, the company’s strategy which focuses on printing web-based content. Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of the printer supplies giant’s Imaging and Printing Group, revealed that HP sought to capture a significant share of the 53 trillion pages estimated to be printed in 2010 alone. The […]

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Self-service paper shredder gets US patent

By Paperstone on 31 May 2007 in Shredders & Supplies with 0 Comments

Paper shredders across the world may fear for their futures, after the US Patent and Trademark Office recently granted a patent for The Self-Service Shredder. Built and marketed by Colorado Springs-based firm Real Time Shredding, the machine was granted its patented status for its role as a “public access information destruction system performing pay-per-use shredding”. […]

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Th-ink-ing about the environment

By Paperstone on 31 May 2007 in Ink Cartridges And Toners with 0 Comments

The National Arbor Day Foundation has announced it is teaming up with inkjet cartridge refill franchise Cartridge World to help replant America’s national rainforests. The initiative entitled ‘Plant a tree, not a cartridge’ will see trees damaged by wildfire and other natural causes replaced. US inkjet cartridge refill firm Cartridge World will be making donations […]

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