For decades the company was generating tons of paper waste from different sources which was contracted out to dispose by paying x amount of money.
On the other hand company had lots of procurement need of paper stationery for daily functioning, especially in the reprography and other administrative areas. Since the systems were not interconnected this quantum of IN and OUT of paper usage was never assessed accurately. Moreover no one noticed the damage they do to the mother earth.
Its only when a smart data collection and monitoring application came in to use, the team realised the volume of paper waste generated from their corporate office per day is equal to cutting down one tree/ per day for producing these papers. Around 8000 A 4 size papers per day !. Immediately all possible control measures where put in place, and these tons of papers generated at site were recycled used as office stationery.