BARNSLEY Council has reducing the amount of paper it uses for agendas, reports and other documents by 60 per cent.
Over four years it's has cut the number of copies from about three million to about one million as part of a drive to improve the authority's carbon footprint.
If laid end to end the paper saved would stretch for more than 300 miles, almost the length of England.
The success has been credited to use of technology such as the Internet and emails.
