Comments on: Environmental Impact of Electronic Invoicing: Go Green. Save Green. http://www.paystreamvoices.com/2009/05/29/environmental-impact-of-electronic-invoicing-go-green-save-green/ The online community for financial operations technology & automation Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:42:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Juha Hakamies http://www.paystreamvoices.com/2009/05/29/environmental-impact-of-electronic-invoicing-go-green-save-green/#comment-201 Juha Hakamies Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:20:57 +0000 http://www.paystreamvoices.com/2009/05/29/environmental-impact-of-electronic-invoicing-go-green-save-green/#comment-201 Good viewpoint. We at Basware were putting up similar calculations about a year ago for our einvoicing prospects and got one interesting from one of our interoperability partners Pagero. According to this the transition from paper to einvoicing would save over 14 million trees in the EU alone yearly. Getting rid of the estimated 20 billion yearly paper letters in Europe would mean saving of; * 400,000 tons of paper * 12 million trees * 2,700 tons of ink * 165 million litres of diesel and * 1,350 GWh of energy The energy required for putting out a 1 sheet paper invoice equals to burning a 40W lamp for one month ! How many lamps are you lighting each day? Good viewpoint. We at Basware were putting up similar calculations about a year ago for our einvoicing prospects and got one interesting from one of our interoperability partners Pagero. According to this the transition from paper to einvoicing would save over 14 million trees in the EU alone yearly. Getting rid of the estimated 20 billion yearly paper letters in Europe would mean saving of;
* 400,000 tons of paper
* 12 million trees
* 2,700 tons of ink
* 165 million litres of diesel and
* 1,350 GWh of energy

The energy required for putting out a 1 sheet paper invoice equals to burning a 40W lamp for one month ! How many lamps are you lighting each day?

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