A Leger Marketing poll* announced today found that Canadians are printing and wasting more paper than ever before - and feeling guilty about it. The survey, issued at the You, Me and Green conference on Green IT, reveals there is a clear need in Canada for environmentally responsible solutions that help save paper while enabling Canadian businesses to remain productive and secure.
Paper abuse and office use
Poll results show that while the average working Canadian prints 30 pages of documents every day, nearly four out of 10 pages are tossed - accounting for a staggering 10 pages of wasted paper every day by the average Canadian. Additionally, two out of five Canadians say they are printing more documents than they were five years ago.
Despite the fact that Canadian workers create so much paper waste, the survey shows that the majority of employees (77 per cent) across the country are concerned about their impact on the environment, and over one quarter (27 per cent) want to be environmentally conscious. But they don't know where to start.
TELUS Secure Contracts - The digital road to recovery
Increasingly, companies in the Canada and the U.S. are embracing digital signature and electronic agreement technology, one of the most cost effective and environmentally responsible means of simplifying and safeguarding day-to-day business processes. In fact, results showed that nearly one in two Canadians (49 per cent) would use digitally secured documentation in order to reduce paper wastage, and that 42 per cent already handle as many documents as they can electronically, to do their part to protect the environment.
TELUS Secure Contracts powered by Recombo helps make doing business more efficient with a secure, accurate and auditable legal digital signature solution that converts traditional, static documents into Web-based, interactive interfaces.
TELUS Secure Contracts is convenient for business, reduces courier and administration costs and is a significant step toward reducing paper waste that is associated with paper-based documentation.
To improve customer convenience, it reduces data entry by integrating with customer relationship management or back office systems, and automatically extracts critical data from contracts. It prevents incomplete documents with configurable form fields, allows complete visibility into agreement status (read/viewed/signed) and contract data, and provides a Web-based self-service portal for clients to complete and sign forms and documents.
Green is good for business
While 61 per cent of respondents polled believe being green is good for business and over half (51 per cent) believe their company should incorporate more office practices to limit their impact on the environment, only 16 per cent say that they have a full blown paper management policy to follow in the office.
TELUS' unyielding commitment to the environment has lead us to be the only North American fixed telecom on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index as one of world's top economic, environmental and social performers. Following on our commitment to reduce waste and improve the environment, through Tree Canada we funded the planting of one tree for every cell phone recycled in 2007. This, in conjunction with online billing and other initiatives, resulted in the planting of more than 50,000 trees last year. Additionally, during the 2007 TELUS Day of Service, more than 6,000 TELUS team members, retirees and family members took part in numerous environmental projects nationally.
In October 2007, TELUS House, which is designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) "silver" requirements from the Canada Green Building Council, is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in Ottawa, was opened. LEED is an internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance sustainable buildings.
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