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Economical and Ecological Benefit with Paperless Productivity

Save the environment and save money with business workflow solutions through Paperless Productivity. At Paperless, we’re committed to helping you streamline workflow by reducing paper use and automating business processes.

Ecological Benefit

A simple way to have a huge impact on the environment is through reducing paper consumption. A tree can only produce, on average, 17 reams of paper, and takes about 100 years to grow. By reducing paper usage, companies can have a direct impact on reducing their carbon footprint. After all, more than 50% of paper comes from virgin forests.

Going paperless helps to reduce C02 (carbon dioxide) emissions. Turning a single tree into 17 reams of paper results in around 110 lbs of C02 being released into the atmosphere. Additionally, trees are also ‘carbon sinks’ and every tree that is not cut down for paper usage is able to absorb C02 gasses. The average tree can absorb around a ton- 2,000 lbs- of C02 in its lifetime.

If you would like more details on the ecological and environmental cost of paper, please check out our environmental impact page for more detail.

How many reams of paper (and trees) does your organization use every month? Check out your organization’s net impact on the environment through our carbon footprint calculator.

Economical Savings

The beauty of going paperless is that it not only saves the environment but it also saves companies a lot of money. By automating business processes and transitioning to more eco-friendly workflow solutions, companies can saves tens, hundreds, and millions of dollars this year, and every year. Paperless faxing and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software allows organizations to reduce phone lines and data entry costs while eliminating costs of ink, paper, and associated labor costs. With Paperless Productivity, companies will never lose a document again.

Check out our ROI calculator (Return-On-Investment) and join the thousands of companies that realize ongoing savings and payback for their investment within twelve, six, or even three months.

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Trees are ‘carbon sinks’, they remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. The largest and oldest trees remove the most CO2 from the atmosphere.

A mature tree removes around 50 lbs of CO2 from the atmosphere every year, or 1 ton during a 40 year period. Many trees live for much longer, and some trees live over 1000 years.

The U.S. paper industry produces 83 million tons of paper, emitting 19 million tons of CO2.
Each year, 23 million tons of paper (28%) is used as copy and print paper, 7 billion reams, 40.5 Million trees, clear cutting an area half the size of Texas.

One ream of paper weighs approximately 5 pounds. The average person consumes an estimated 123 pounds of paper each year, 28% of which for printing and copying, or 7 reams of paper per person.

The world paper consumption for prints and copies is equal to 1.1 billion trees, 190 billion reams of paper, or 1.6 billion tons of CO2, 17% of worldwide CO2 emissions. Over 70% of the pulp used to make paper comes from forest, only 30% from tree farms.

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