Sustainability: business, life, environment

Businesses and individuals alike are looking for ways to cut costs as well as extend eco awareness into the workplace and personal lives.  Consider the cost and environmental impact of paper.  It is one thing that we touch every day.    Paper and paperboard products constitute the largest portion of our waste stream.  The ability to reduce paper consumption at work and at home is an opportunity to reduce the waste flowing into landfills, reduce costs and help the environment at the same time.
 
A solution just recently introduced to our sustainability consulting practice is a service from allEtronic.    allEtronic is a service offering eco action for both businesses and consumers. 
 
In a nutshell, allEtronic's service allows businesses of any size to provide their customers with paperless receipts. allEtronic provides a software add-on or “patch” to retailers’ existing Point of Sale (POS) software so that they may utilize the paperless receipt service. 
 
For the consumers who use it, allEtronic promises a secure means to receive, store,
track, and access information about their purchases or account(s) from participating businesses through a single, centralized location - the allEtronic web site.
 
At the heart of allEtronic is a sustainable business strategy.  An internal set of ideals:  Paper Dependency Reduction Strategy (PDRS) that define and drive the systems they develop. The core focus of their PDRS is on the implementation of innovative paperless developments that eliminates paper as the medium by which businesses deliver paper-based material (thermal receipts, coupons, billing statements, etc.) to their customers.
 
 
Interestingly, a single big-box retailer can use nearly 9 million trees per year from paper receipts. Furthermore, the thermal receipt paper that receipts are printed on is not recyclable.
 
As demonstrated in business sustainability programs, reducing paper consumption has its benefits:
 
•    increase organization and productivity
•    eliminate storage space
•    reduce costs
•    improve disaster recovery protection for legal documents
•    reduces your environmental impact
 
Incorporating sustainability concept of paper reduction contributes to living a sustainable lifestyle and promoting sustainable businesses.  allEtronic is a great option that supports both.