What's the ecological impact of a single page of paper? A single pen? Faxing per page? Any info appreciated

Question

I'm trying to determine the closest ecological benefit for people using online signatures instead of printing, signing, faxing, or else printing and shipping. - any info appreciated. Impact includes paper (from tree, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, retail, use, then printing, signing with a typical plastic pen, then faxing)... it's geeky question but earth friendly and if you have any stats I'd be very grateful. I'm ultimately trying to get to #'s of carbon, trees saved, gallons of chemicals (plastic, production, packaging, etc.), wattage of electricity saved.

Thanks! For any useful data I'll gladly give you a free account on iSignature.com (in beta now).

Answer 1

40% of garbage in the landfills is actually nothing more than paper products. The other 60% of course (amongst other things) includes things like old pens, pencil ends, spirals (from a notepad), broken notebooks, broken file cabinets and folders. We really have a lot of waste from paper and paper storage. (don't forget to talk about how much clutter and stress one will save without all that paper to keep track of and store)

I have a website called www.be-green-save-green.com that helps guide people away from wasting and when your site is ready we can link eachother if you would like. I have a "contact us" section so we can set that up if you're interested.

Good luck on your project it sounds really promising!