| How Green Businesses Are Reducing Paper |
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| Environment - Environment |
| Written by R. Michael Richmond |
| Saturday, 24 October 2009 08:38 |
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It might seem simple for companies to just call themselves Green, but the truth is most Green Businesses don't have honest Green practices. Genuine Green Businesses do their very best to reduce air pollution, paper, water, and energy. The real reason people take such an initiative to have a Green Business is because first, they are saving their company thousands of dollars and second, they feel a sense of doing the right thing. Large and Small businesses need to recognize that reducing paper can cut cost in the long and short run.
It might seem simple for companies to just call themselves Green, but the truth is most Green Businesses don't have honest Green practices. Genuine Green Businesses do their very best to reduce air pollution, paper, water, and energy. The real reason people take such an initiative to have a Green Business is because first, they are saving their company thousands of dollars and second, they feel a sense of doing the right thing. Large and Small businesses need to recognize that reducing paper can cut cost in the long and short run. Companies that are using efax can see immediate results because their Green Business will be more valuable and unfailing. Their company will accumulate money because they don't have to buy paper, ink, or a fax machine which are all harmful to the environment. Internet faxing provides a user-friendly interface that makes efaxing effortless to learn and operate. People who have been using conventional fax machines for long period of time will discover it is difficult to transition to online faxing. Online faxing can be incorporated with emails, which enables paperless communication. Furthermore, the Internet facilitates earlier communication time. The velocity of the Internet allows the users to store, send, and receive numerous faxes concurrently. Conversely, the storage periods differ with service packages. Some efax users are allowed to store the faxes online for 6 months, while some have a storage period of about 8-12 months. Internet faxing does not require a dedicated telephone line. The communication takes place over the existing Internet connection line. As no extra phone line is needed, online faxing results in a substantial reduction in communication costs. The users are only required to pay a low fixed Internet connection fee regardless of the amount of line usage. Even faxes are on their way out as companies like www.efax.com and www.fax.com take a larger share of this market.Fax machines are costly to buy and operate and add to the volume of machines we toss out after to few years. They add to the landfill crisis; when, in fact, a simple-to-install email conversion system literally works a hundred times better. Efax.com is a new web service that gives a fax number and free usage of that number to people, so they can receive private faxes at their own email account. EFax.com is for millions of mobile professionals, home office workers, and small business users who are actively seeking faster, more sustainable, and more reliable ways to overcome the hassles of trying to receive paper documents remotely. While many people in the industry predicted the Internet would render fax machines obsolete, fax traffic is growing by 20 percent annually, and is expected to exceed 500 billion pages next year. That's half a trillion pages that will be faxed around the world in the year 2010 as fax continues to be the easiest and most well know form of document communication. Efax.com is the first company to provide free, unlimited Internet service, setting a new standard with its simple-to-use, proprietary fax-to-email delivery technology. Efax would be a good and simple start for companies that are trying to be Green. All companies can improve on how to be a Green Business and having Green practices, but things can't be done all at once because it can become too overwhelming and expensive. That's why companies should become Green one step at a time and then they will see the results they were looking for. About the Author: Being a Green Business is not simple but with a Green consultant from the Green Business League you can make an intelligent and smooth transition. If you work for a company that is planning on implementing Green practices then the Green Officer Training can facilitate businesses on making a Green plan. Being a Green Officer is done in steps and the first step is getting the help and knowledge to prepare you. |