The U.S. EPA's Office of Solid Waste is the lead organization on better managing our municipal waste streams, including copy paper. To date the OFEE has focused primarily on specific requirements of the E.O. 12873, and has lacked the resources to address the more general intentions such as cutting paper use. With the expanded mandate of E.O. 13101, the OFEE may be able to take a stronger hand in reducing paper use. Many federal agencies have taken specific actions in their own operations to reduce paper use. Some examples of these follow.
Indications are that the goal was met.
The Department of Energy announced a goal to increase duplexing at its headquarters building. DOE Laboratories Many Department of Energy National Labs have goals to reduce waste generation overall, including non-hazardous solid waste. By 1995, this figure had dropped below 100,000 tons, though this does not count waste that gets recycled. For an example of what one National Laboratory does about solid waste, see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Recycling page . The new Executive Order justifies innovative efforts to reduce office paper use, and only requires a motivated agency or organization to pursue them.