Here's how courts can help save 2k trees, 24k tankers of water every year

Courts use paper printed on one side because of official formats and a tradition that dates to the years of typewriters, which are still used in many courts

As many as 61,520 cases were filed in the Supreme Court (SC) between October 2016 and September 2017, and using paper printed on both sides in filings would have saved nearly 2,953 trees and 246 million litre water (24,600 tankers--considering one standard tanker-truck holds 10,000 litre), according to an analysis by the Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC), a New Delhi-based think tank.

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the SC by CASC on September 5, 2018, seeking directions to use paper printed on both sides in pleadings and filings before