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Kate McCullough, administrative assistant, makes copies of the church bulletin at First Church of the Nazarene. McCullough saves the church money by e-mailing the majority of the newsletters and copying just a few.
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Published November 18, 2008 11:14 pm -

$AVING YOU MONEY: Office supply frugality also saves the environment



Editor’s note: One in a series.

As an administrative assistant at First Church of the Nazarene, Kate McCullough seeks to be a wise steward on office expenses.

She e-mails nearly all church newsletters instead of mailing them. She prints documents on both sides of the paper.

“And when I’m done with a document, I just cut it up into pieces to use as a memo pad,” she said.

Steps that McCullough takes to cut church office costs are the same steps anyone can take to cut costs, whether the office is in the home, a college dormitory, a business or a major corporation.

“Saving money is really important for us because finances are tight, and it’s affecting everyone,” she said. “We print on both sides of the paper whenever we can, and we don’t throw away paper.”

One major cost cutter has been to e-mail the weekly church newsletter, she said. The church e-mails the newsletter to about 200 members, but still mails printed newsletters to 20 members.

“We save $26 a week on postage by not sending out the newsletter,” she said. “We also don’t have to print out labels, which is good because those can be pretty expensive.”

Paper isn’t the only office supply McCullough seeks to reuse. The church also sends its ink and toner cartridges out to be recycled at Cartridge World, located in the River City Plaza Shopping Center on West Shawnee Bypass.

Local Cartridge World owner Kelly Seratt said recycling and refilling ink and toner saves in two ways.

“The first reason they come is that it saves significantly in costs,” she said.

It also saves the environment, she said.

A media release for Cartridge World, which also has a store in Tahlequah, said more than 350 million ink cartridges are discarded in landfills each year.

“By reusing a toner cartridge, you save approximately a gallon of oil,” the press release said. “Every remanufactured cartridge saves nearly three and a half pounds of solid waste from being deposited into landfills.”



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