1000 Flowers for the Planet - #134 Use Electronic Faxes

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #134 Use Electronic Faxes

This idea will only save paper as long as you don’t print something out in the first instance and probably would work best in a business environment. The user is required to sign up to an Internet fax service which will assign them a number e.g. 180044449999@emailfaxes.com. To send a fax, attach an electronic copy of the document to an email and use the fax number in the recipient’s address line. The document will be received by their fax machine and printed. Conversely, you can send a paper document via your fax machine to a recipient’s email where it will be converted into an attachment. Either way, one end of the process will avoid printing paperwork, thus saving trees and many other natural resources. It all adds up over time.