Atlantic’s Document Management Solutions: Achieve Your Sustainability Goals
Atlantic Document Management Solutions can serve a critical role in helping businesses achieve sustainability goals and benefits by reducing or eliminating document printing, copying, and physical routing by enabling secure document access anytime, anywhere, from any configured device. The cumulative economic, environmental, and workplace quality impact is stunning:
- The costs of using paper in the office can run 13 to 31 times the cost of purchasing the paper in the first place
- It takes more than 1½ cups of water to make one sheet of paper
- Over 40% of wood pulp goes toward the production of paper.
- Reducing paper use reduces greenhouse gases: each time 40 reams of paper preserves 1.5 acres of pine forest absorbing carbon for a year.
- A single invoice sent through the mail has a carbon footprint of around 50g
- Domino effect – less print, less power, less toner, less water, less resources
- The average paper document is copied 9 to 11 times.
- We are approaching 4 trillion documents being stored by businesses and government agencies.
- Each four-drawer file cabinet holds an average of 10,000 to 12,000 documents, takes up to 9 square feet of floor space, and costs $1,500 per year.
- Every 12 filing cabinets require an additional employee to maintain.
- 18 minutes is the average search time for a document.
- Paper in the average business grows by 22% a year, meaning your paper will double in 3.3 years.
- U.S. managers spend an average of 4 weeks a year searching for or waiting on misfiled, mislabeled, untracked, or ‘lost’ papers”
- The costs of using paper in the office can run 13 to 31 times the cost of purchasing the paper in the first place
- It takes more than 1½ cups of water to make one sheet of paper
- Over 40% of wood pulp goes toward the production of paper.
- Reducing paper use reduces greenhouse gases: 40 reams of paper is like 1.5 acres of pine forest absorbing carbon for a year.
Source: thepaperlessproject
