GO Paperless!™ allows you to communicate with people in a way that it better for the environment. Using GO Paperless!™ as your alternative to paper you can reduce the green house gas emissions, energy consumption and solid waste your company produces in your current marketing mix.
The Carbon Cost: Paper, Printing, Delivery
To produce a sheet of paper, send it to a printer, have it printed, shipped and handled at point of sale and then delivered to your customer uses a lot of energy and natural resources. There is a large cost to the environment to get your marketing material in the hands of your customers. GO Paperless!™ eliminates the associated carbon cost to your organization by providing a green alternative to paper.
Multiple Pages, Same Cost
Whether you want to communicate in multiple languages or to provide more relevant content, multiple pages is not an issue. With GO Paperless!™, whether it is 1 page or 20 pages, you don’t have to worry about increasing your footprint. You can provide people with all the information in any and all languages and never again worry about leaving things out in order to minimize your impact on the environment.
The Paper Impact
Here’s a comparison of what it takes to produce 250,000 copies of a 4page catalogue. These statistics do not include printing or delivery.
| |
0% Recycled |
30% Recycled |
100% Recycled |
GO Paperless! |
| Wood Use |
74 trees |
52 trees |
0 trees |
0 trees |
| GHG Emissions |
31,627 lbs CO2 Equiv |
20,079 lbs CO2 Equiv |
16,466 lbs CO2 Equiv |
0 lbs CO2 Equiv |
| Energy Use |
158 million BTU's |
145 million BTU's |
114 million BTU's |
approx. 1 thousand BTU's |
| Water Waste |
74,054 gallons |
66,538 gallons |
49,000 gallons |
0
gallons |
| Solid Waste |
11,355 pounds |
9,478 pounds |
5,099 pounds |
0 pounds |
| Source: The Paper Calculator |