GreenFax And The Environment
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Based on government research, it is estimated that conventional fax machines consume more than 200 billion pages of paper each year in the US alone. If just 5% of this faxing were done paperlessly, this would save over 1 million trees per year.
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Taking it a step further and considering the energy and water required to produce this amount of paper, as well as the air pollution generated during the paper making process, the same 5% reduction in paper faxing would result in:
- Saving 360 million gallons of water. That's an entire day's supply of municipal water for the city of Philadelphia.
- Saving 215 million kilowatt hours of energy. That's enough energy to power New York City's subway system for over a month.
- Eliminating 3 million pounds of air pollution - equivalent to the same amount of air pollution produced by 2800 cars in a year.
By choosing GreenFax over a conventional paper-based fax solution, you not only help to preserve the environment - you also gain the simplicity, cost savings, and convenience of sending and receiving your faxes from wherever you can access your email.
The information on this page is based on statistics obtained from reputable government and university sources. To request a whitepaper that includes references to the sources of these statistics, as well as the calculations used to compute the derived figures, please contact us.
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