How many times have you heard that the fax machine go off in the office only
to retrieve the print-out and discover the document is a spam? That is because
a standard fax machine cannot differentiate between important and unimportant
faxes.
Not only do these unwanted faxes waste resources like expensive ink and
paper, but traditional faxing is simply not environmentally friendly. Email faxing with Metrofax is a quick way to cut waste and print only those faxes that require you to have a hard copy on
file.
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The Role of Email Faxing in the Environment
Indeed, the effect of global warming has had on the environment has caused
most businesses to check all practices that have an environmental impact. In
addition to recycling paper and making receptacles available for the proper
disposal of metal, cardboard, and plastic, companies are replacing typical
light bulbs with halogen lights.
Along these lines, email faxing allows a company to transfer a typical paper
fax into a digital copy and then attaching that fax to an email. This method
saves paper and ink, and much improves the ability to organize faxes for quick
access when you need them.
How much paper gets used by fax machines each year you ask? Environmental source GreenFax
claims that fax machines use more than 200 billion pages of paper each year in
the U.S.