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"We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rain-forests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years."

• 12,500 sheets of paper can be made from 1 tree
• 210 billion sheets of paper are consumed by faxing in US companies every year.
• 10,000 sheets of paper per year are used by a single US office worker
• 95% of this paper will eventually be thrown away and not recycled.
• 4 trees per year are cut down to feed the fax requirements of an average US company.
• 17 million trees per year are cut down to supply fax paper for the US as a whole
  
  

We're all aware that the planet's resources are under pressure like never before, but how would switching to an online paperless business system help reverse this? Surely it would be a drop in a very large ocean?  The truth might startle you. The decision to do something as simple as send your faxes online could substantially reduce deforestation and benefit the eco-system as a whole.

First, let's consider a real life example of fax paper usage in a typical office with 100 employees.  Let's assume that this office purchases approximately 1 million sheets of paper or about 5 tons*.  This may seem excessive, but if you look at your own purchases you will find that 10,000 sheets of paper per person is a reasonable number and could even be conservative for some offices. Traditional faxing accounts for 5% of all paper used in offices, which means our example business is faxing out around 50,000 sheets of paper per year.  Or 500 sheets per person. (Over 40 fax pages per month).

On a micro-scale, this may seem insignificant. But when you consider U.S. businesses now use about 21 million tons of paper every year it means faxing alone accounts for 210 billion sheets per year - a staggering figure by any standards - and one with devastating consequences for our rainforests.

Furthermore, 95% of the paper used for faxing will eventually have to be disposed of. Although moves have been made in recent years to increase public awareness of recycling, the results are not enough to have a meaningful impact on deforestation. Most of this paper will end up as landfill, adding further to the pressures on the environment.
 
Traditional fax machines are also the most energy intensive form of communication available. A report by the Association of Cities and Recycling found faxing to be the most wasteful form of transmitting messages. **

We believe that the movement to paperless business solutions will have a significant impact on the environment. As part of the evolution of modern society towards a more conscientious and responsible attitude towards the earth's resources, switching to a paperless business system is a simple yet important step.