Being responsible about your paper usage and paper purchasing is not just about saving trees. In my past series outlining the use of electronic signatures (One of my first posts-please be kind) made a dramatic impact on the amount of paper waste during the loan process for myself and colleagues. The next step to reduce paper waste is you; your ability to help reduce waste at home is tremendous.The benefits of using less paper and/or using recycled paper products are many. Recycling paper prevents unnecessary land filling of valuable resources. Recycling paper and purchasing recycled content paper helps create American jobs. And, in addition to saving trees, producing recycled paper uses less water and energy than paper made from trees. Because we are using less water we see two benefits, the first being that the water can be diverted to other uses and the second being that the toxic substances found in the waste water from paper mills is dramatically reduced.
Post-consumer materials are those that we recycle from our homes and offices that would otherwise be placed into landfills. By using post-consumer materials we help “close the loop” to encourage more recycling and less waste of valuable resources. If we are not buying these recycled paper products we fail to achieve the maximum benefit that a strong supply and demand cycle for recycled content paper products produces. Find out more on the EPA’s website by clicking on EPA rescouce.
Another article will be soon to come on Doccusign… electronic signature services through email!!!
