ONLINE BANKING SAVES TREES People urged to go the paperless route

Switch to online banking and bill paying and help to save the planet. That’s the message a number of banks and businesses soon will be using to persuade consumers to go paperless. “Many consumers do not realize the full impact their household could make by simply asking to turn off paper bills and statements once they’ve adopted online banking,” Stuart Williams, co-chair of the Electronic Payments Association’s new “green coalition,” said in a prepared statement.

A new study by Calif.-based Javelin Strategy and Research, for example, found that if all the nation’s households just received and paid bills electronically, they’d save 16.5 million trees each year, or the amount of lumber needed to build 216,054 typical single-family homes.
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