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This is our drawer for storing single-sided office paper. Amazingly this drawer never seems to empty. We have not bought office paper for 10years! We haven’t even had a printer for at least 4 years. We get virtually no mail and don’t take home paper handouts as much as possible. We’re good at refusing paper but we still get some. It comes from school notes or from me deconstructing their school work books at the end of the year. It comes from documents from the sale of our house and various child health assessments, etc. So when it arrives we pop anything single sided into this drawer and reuse it for note pads, crafts and drawing paper. Reusing single-sided paper is the most ethical office paper you can use (Next is forest friendly paper). When the paper has been completely spent it gets put in the recycling. I’m still amazed we haven’t bought any additional paper in all this time.