Let’s save the world – a 21m page manual

A LOCAL authority that declared a “climate emergency” prints about 21 million pages of paper a year, it has emerged.

Cornwall Council, which promised to cut its carbon footprint, used 1.7 million sheets in June alone.

The figures were listed in an agenda – itself 170 pages long – to discuss the council’s move to digital.

Councillors heard that printing cost £280,000 and 2,600 trees in the last year.

Lib Dem councillor Colin Martin said: “This is 2019, not 1920.

“Paper still has a use for reaching people who don’t use computers, but every councillor and council officer has a laptop.”