No one can pass by the sustainable development. Thanks to the increase of Green IT policy , digital economy and new technologies become eco-friendly. In this new era people are getting virtually closer, reducing business travel and physical flow and access to dematerialized information optimize groupware and communication between different players.
A few figures...
ONE TON OF PAPER, THAT'S 17 TREES, 3 M3 OF WASTES, 26 500 L OF WATER, 3 BARRELS OF PETROL AND 4 100 KILOWATTS. (OMNIUMCOM)
Papier's weight
- In France, every year, an office worker uses 75 Kg of paper. (Riposte Verte)
- An executive spends 30-40 % of his time to process documents. (GARTNER)
- 172 billion of photocopies done in 2000. (Dématériel)
- Paper represents 90-95% of information that flows in a company. (magazine Capital)
- 2 billion of invoices every year, only 3% in an electronic form. (Dématériel)
- Wastes produced by tertiary sector activity are at 80% paper and cardboard. (association Riposte Verte)
- 3% of documents are badly classified, 7,5% are lost. (EMC)
Paper's costs
- In France, the figure is between 1% and 3% of the company turnover (LEXMARK France)
- Every year, in France, € 400 millions are wasted in needless prints. (association Riposte Verte)
- Firms spend $ 750 billion every year in retrieving informations they need for their activities. (GARTNER)
- Filing a paper document : from € 0,46 up to € 1,53 €. (magazine Capital)
- Retrieval of a paper document : from € 4,6 up to € 305,30 €. (magazine capital)
- Processing cost of a paper invoice : € 14. (Dématériel)
- Big firms spend every years $ 200 billion in processing paper, $ 6 billion for printing and $ 120 billion for mailling, faxing, and filing. Every year, more than 1,5 trillion of new pages inrease the amount of the existing paper hill produced by US firms. (Gartner)
- Increase about 5% to 8% of the paper price for 2011. (Save-Paper)
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