Store and Shred Newsletter July 2015

Will We Ever go completely digital

It's quite a thought to think of a world where paper doesn't exist. Even today, things like writing on a piece of scratch paper can now be replaced with a portable digital notepad or getting a receipt at the grocery store now has the option to email you instead. But will paper ever really go out of style? 

This might be a question that even google can't answer, but there are a few statistics that show paper is still thriving in this digital world. For example, the world uses 400 percent more paper than it did 40 years ago and each year, every person in the United States uses around 749 pounds of paper.

What about paper consumption in the office? Maybe invoicing is slowly being delivered electronically or faxing is a thing of the past but you would be surprised by how much paper businesses are using: 

• On average, 10,000 sheets of copy paper per year are used by an office worker
• Each year, paper consumption in the average business grows 22%, you will see your paper double in 3.3 years
• If businesses today lost it's paper based records, around 70% of them would fail within 3 weeks
• In the US, we spend more than $120 billion dollars on printed records

For a society that is more likely to communicate through email, text, social media, app's and pretty much everything but traditional media like writing letters, it's safe to say that paper consumption seems to still be a significant part of the every day world.  

Source :Fact About Paper: The Impact of Consumption http://www.thepaperlessproject.com/facts-about-paper-the-impact-of-consumption/

About AMS Med Waste, LLC

By now you have probably heard of our new medical waste division or seen it in the side bar of our newsletters. We are proud to announce this new division that will be servicing the Chicagoland area in addition to Northern Indiana and Southern Wisconsin. 

AMS Med Waste LLC is a provider of medical waste services which includes transportation, treatment and disposal services of all Regulated Medical Waste (RMW). We offer disposal services for regulated medical waste, pathology, and pharmaceutical drugs. AMS also offers an onboarding training session for the proper handling and packaging of your medical waste including training manuals.

Clients are supplied with reusable red containers, including liners, which are bar coded for transportation of the waste materials.  Alternative cardboard boxes are provided in case of an overflow. Service schedules are based on client needs and requests for service are available online via a secure client login.

Gloves, personal protective equipment, gauze, and bandages are among the items that are considered medical waste and should be disposed of properly. Sharps waste includes but is not limited to: needles, syringes, blades, needles with attached tubing and contaminated surgical instruments.  In addition to these services we have also implemented a take back program for hazardous pharmaceutical waste. 

Contact AMS Med Waste for additional information 

855-Med-Waste (633-9278)

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