encourage coworkers to reduce their paper and plastic consumption.

Since I started my career as an accountant in a huge company, I couldn't help but notice the incredible volume of paper that gets used every day.  Often print jobs left on the printer will just be put in the recycle bin and the owner will simply print again, or people print a whole file for just a few pages.  Also, our work provides us with a variety of drinks including bottled water.  I've noticed that almost everyone takes a new bottle of water rather than using the filtered water tap to refil and reuse their bottle.  Even better would be to use the glasses provided and fill them with the filtered water.  So I've tried leading by example and spreading the word that reducing comes before recycling...