Go Green with Direct Payments to Help Save the Environment

Direct Payments are good for the environment. The PayItGreen Alliance™ estimates that if only one in five households switched to electronic payments for all bills and received invoices for bills electronically, we could

• Save 151 million pounds of paper each year.
• Save 1.8 million trees each year.
• Avoid producing 1.9 million tons of greenhouse gases. Saving this amount of greenhouse gases is the equivalent of:
  • The emissions avoided by not driving 3.9 billion miles
  • Taking 325,722 cars off the road
  • The emissions avoided by not consuming 200 million gallons of gasoline
  • Planting 45.6 million tree seedlings and allowing them to grow for 10 years
  • Preserving 12,405 acres of forest from deforestation
  • Avoid creating 1.4 million gallons of wastewater.
  • Avoid creating enough wastewater to fill 2,180 Olympic-size swimming pools
  • Avoid filling 8.6 million household garbage bags with waste
  • Avoid filling 6,141 garbage trucks with waste.
  • Avoid using 103 million gallons of gasoline to mail bills, statements, and payments, or the equivalent of driving from New York to LA and back 918 times.

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