Dr. Mercola December 04 2007 33,328 views
This is probably irrelevant. People are going to use computers anyway, regardless of whether or not their office is paperless. We are still subtracting from the environmental burden by going paperless.
As for saving records for 7 years USA says that as well but you do have a copy of the orginal which is totally exceptable. Double check on that and see if that isn't also the case in Canada and New Zealand. Saves alot of room in storage!! Also, as for the fear of loosing it, use the internet back up called carbonite. LOVE this program. It is unlimited space for about $4.00 month!! It is the best progrm I have found and the cheapest. I have had a fire where I lost my back up sitting on my desk! You will never loose a think with this. It backs up constantly in the background and doesn't slow your computer at all. You will never back up as well as this program.
As for the dangers of sitting in front of a computer try Q-link. Do a search on it. Works like a charm in stopping computer and other radiation.
Get as many statements sent to you online as possible. Most banks and companies will send you a paperless statement. You then just have to move it to a file. No scanning. If you do have to scan, recycle. I have noticed a big difference with just my small company. And heaven forbid recycle all those catalogs that you get in the mail! Those seem to be endless!!
good point. we should tax paper the same way we tax cigarettes. the revenue can be used to protect the environment.
Going "paperless" is not a good way to go green. In fact by doing so you are reducing the number of trees available to clean up our atmosphere. Use more paper and the industry plants more trees, simple as that. It is other industries, not the paper industry, that is causing deforestation (think agriculture).
I agree with the bohemian donut! Sometime my intuition tells me that going all electronic is not the greenest or healthiest solution. I'd rather rattle some papers than sit in front of my computer screen. Surely Dr. Mercola knows the detriments of sitting too much in front of an electronic device. ..or just sitting too much. Trees can be replanted. Paper can be recycled. We can use less of it, surely, but to go all electronic? It gives me the shudders!