America Recycles Day
Did you know that American’s throw away enough office paper each year to build a 12 foot high wall of paper from NY to Seattle? Well today is a good day to learn about these things, as it is America Recycles Day. We here at FormSpring thought that it would be a great opportunity to point out one of the often overlooked benefits of using FormSpring – you can stop using paper forms! That’s right, recycle your paper forms and put them online. Make it easier for your customers to fill them out and make it easier for you to manage your business or group.
Some more interesting recycling stats include:
Last year the amount of energy saved from recycling aluminum and steel cans, plastic PET and glass containers, newsprint and corrugated packaging was equivalent to:
• The amount of electricity consumed by 17.8 million Americans in one year.
• 29% of nuclear electricity generation in the U.S. in one year.
• 7.9% of electricity generation from fossil fuels in the U.S. in one year.
• 11% of the energy produced by coal-fired power plants in the U.S.
• The energy supplied from 2.7% of imported barrels of crude oil into the U.S.
• The amount of gasoline used in almost 11 million passenger automobiles in one year.
Read more about what you can do to help, head to your recycling bin, chuck your paper forms, and learn more about how FormSpring can help take you to a paperless form organization.