By cutting back on paper use, Montgomery County has saved $6.3 million in the last two fiscal years — $3 million in fiscal 2010 and $3.3 million in fiscal 2011 — cutting paper-related spending in half.

Started by County Executive Ike Leggett, the project has saved 3.8 million trees, according to CountyStat, the county’s data-collecting arm, and cut about 11,700 garbage trucks’ worth of trash by reducing paper use by 22 percent in fiscal 2010 and 39 percent in fiscal 11.

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