Justice

Audit results – paper

By Jolyon / 13 August 2007

We have now set two cardboard trays in each office – one for paper reusable on one side, one for paper to be recycled. The sensitive documents and past accounts we have put through a shredder. The youth group (F.R.I.D.G.E) has used the shredded paper to make paper mache pinata. We will fill them with fun things and give them to a charity for kids at Christmas.

This is still only recycling the paper. Not using it in the first place would be better.

With that in mind a proposal has been put to vestry to for the halving of the size of the weekly pew sheet, and printing only enough for those that refer back to them during the week. The following is the proposal:

1: That the events for the order of service and readers be projected or spoken.

a. That the collect and sentence be projected in a large font as some people have trouble reading the screen.

2. That only the events for the week and notices that people need to refer to during the week be included in the notices.

3. That only those who actually refer back to the sheet during the week be encouraged to take them home, allowing for a reduced number to be printed.

a. That the weekly events be included on the website

b. That specific notices continue to be read during the service.

c. That a notice board or white board be placed in a prominent position – such as by the door so people can refer to it again during morning tea.

4. That the pew news be emailed to those who request it. This could be set up and done easily as it is all written on the computer anyway.

5. That a few cards with contact details be made available at the end of each pew for new people who would like to contact someone, or leave contact details (this is because the pew sheet currently has all the contact details for visitors).

6. That the notice sheets that are printed are placed on the table next to where the minister shakes peoples hands after the service and some by the cup of tea window allowing people to take them if they would like to.

Although the pew sheet is not a huge waste on a world scale, it is part of the bigger picture of the church attempting to reduce waste and consumption before encouraging the congregation do examine their own lives.

We would like to trial the new format for a couple of weeks and see if it works.