Green Fax
“Green Fax” is the nickname given to keeping faxes only between computers. Also referred to as “paperless faxing” or “electronic faxing”, the act of sending a fax by internet eliminates the need for paper on both ends of the transaction and also the need for toner, which is a proven environmental contaminate.
Greenfax.com is a service which charges a monthly fee to fax unlimited documents over the internet, saving paper and ink.
Millions of trees are cut down annually, mostly in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, to support the need for computer paper – by changing your business over to fax by internet, you are doing your part to eliminate this waste. Sadly, 80% of printed faxes that are printed are discarded after reading rather than recycled – ending the life cycle of the tree.
With the ability to send attached documents via email, really the only need for online faxing is to support traditional fax machines connected by telephone line. If everyone got on board and converted their office over to a business 2.0 format, a lot of waste (and expense) on the part of the business owner could be eliminated.
