5 Tips To Be Respectful With The Environment

The future is paper-free. We are becoming greener and investors are looking for green. Have you thought about how many trees could be felled for not having good document management? We are going to help you calculate it: 200,000 pages are a ton of paper. A ton of paper is 24 felled trees. If all the payrolls of all employees in Spain (13,448,000) were printed on paper (2 copies for 12 months), each year more than 161 million pages would be spent on just that. In other words: 17,568 trees, or almost the entire tree extension of the Retiro Park.

What if all the companies in Spain printed, in addition to payrolls, contracts, and leave? The contracts occupy 5 sheets and 2 copies and the cancellations have an extension of 3 sheets and 2 copies. Result: 77,664 trees per year. In just five years we would consume almost the entire surface of the Community of Madrid in trees. Retiro Park will be completely deserted. In just five years we would consume the equivalent of almost the entire area of the Community of Madrid in trees.

One of the side effects of being more environmentally friendly is that some of these actions can save us some money in our home finances. Let’s see 5 daily tips that, in addition to allowing us to be more respectful of the environment, will help us with our small economy.

Recycle

It has become one of the pillars of every home: if you recycle, you help the environment.

A piece of advice: if you can, have a bin for each type of waste: a container for packaging, another container for paper and cardboard, one for organic waste, another for leftovers, and the last one for glass. Help could be putting colored labels to facilitate the work.

Use the bicycle

It helps to reduce the levels of environmental contamination and its levels of carbon monoxide and dioxide, hydrocarbons, and other particles that favor air pollution.

Even if it is for short trips, it can benefit your health, care for the environment, and even your pocket, since you will not spend on gasoline or maintenance of your car.

Turn off lights and unplug appliances you won’t be using

It has been shown that by unplugging devices that go to sleep you can save an average of $52 on your annual bill. Imagine if you also accompanied it by turning off the lights when you leave the room or leaving the fridge open only long enough to get what you need.

Turn off the light! Remember that phrase that your parents told you so much when you were little and put it into practice.

Reducing the use of plastics

There are many reasons why you should try to consume no or as little plastic as possible: a million plastic bottles are sold on the planet every minute. Each one will take about 450 years to decompose. More than 90% of the world’s plastics are produced from fossil fuels. 42% of the plastic goes to the packaging of food and manufactured products, which barely spends a few minutes in the hands of the consumer.

If you care about the planet and biodiversity, reducing your plastic footprint is one of the most efficient ways to reduce your ecological footprint.

Reducing the use of paper

According to the Ministry of Industry, companies that used electronic invoicing saved more than 118 million dollars in 2018. A paper bill costs about 3 while a digital one costs 0.12. It is an abysmal saving in money and paper.

Also, paper can get lost, wet, or torn. And how much physical space do you need at home to store it? They are all cons. Try to reduce paper consumption: use the computer, scan the physical documents you have, and do the paperwork online. Change the chip and start saving money: in this way you will contribute to the sustainability of the environment.

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