Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts

Thursday, September 11, 2025

How To Use Custom Paper Sizes In Pages

You can create documents using custom paper sizes in Pages, but the settings to change the page size aren't where you would expect. You can also change the paper size in Pages on the iPhone and iPad. If you need multiple page sizes in the same document, you can use Preview to combine pages from multiple documents.

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Friday, September 22, 2023

Europe is beating its addiction to plastics. Why is the US so far behind?

In Paris, and elsewhere in Europe, plastics are clearly on their way out and paper is in. The standard takeaway cup in coffee shops, juice bars and cafes serving hipster smoothies is paper, and when there is a straw, it's paper as well (or some other biodegradable non-plastic material). Delivery food orders arrive in paper cartons –some with a chic design touch that plastic could never replicate, unspooling like origami flowers to reveal the food within – in paper bags. Utensils, when requested, are wooden and wrapped in paper. And in grocery stores, bulk sections for pasta, nuts, dried fruit, cereals, rice and legumes are normal, as is putting those things (or your fruit and vegetables) in paper bags. 

Fast food chains such as Pret A Manger, which has opened in at least six European countries outside the UK, Exki, which has branches throughout the Benelux countries and France, and even McDonald's and Burger King serve food consumed on location in glass or other types of reusable packaging. Extended producer responsibility schemes (which hold companies to account for recapturing the packaging they produce) mean that plastic bottle caps no longer fully detach, increasing the likelihood that they too end up recycled…


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