GOING DIGITAL - SAVE ENVIRONMENT

HOW GOING DIGITAL IS SAVING EARTH?

Our 4 billion years young Earth recently celebrated World Environment Day on the 5th of June and we earthlings had a reason to rejoice. World Environment Day is the United Nation’s flagship initiative that celebrates the importance of the preservation of our planet, as well as raises awareness as to how we can save it.

As the era of the Internet dawns upon us in the 21st century, we are learning to bid adieu to the much-revered paper. Paper production is made possible by chopping down trees that are crucial for the environment and collectively, act as lungs of the Earth.

Authorities around the world are finally waking up from slumber to lower the usage of paper and related activities that could deteriorate the condition of our environment. Going Digital has been one such great initiative that makes extensive use of modern technology at our disposal.

The Digital revolution brought along by the internet has given a new lease of life to our planet, in more ways than one. Life as we know it is slowly making its way online to be digital and always connected.

The digital trend spread its root when the 21st century was nearing the end of its first decade and the movement has since then picked quite a pace.

From government offices to banks, schools, businesses, and accountants, everyone has joined the ranks to sustain life on earth.

However, most sections of society have ditched record-keeping on paper and other such activities and switched to digital options mainly due to the convenience offered by the latter.

HOW GOING DIGITAL IS SAVING EARTH?

PAPERLESS OPERATIONS:

1. MONEY TALK:
2. SWITCH TO DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS:
3. E-NEWS:

Paper money is on its way out as new mediums take their place. On top of those mediums is digital media. Cashless payments in the form of e-wallets like Paytm, PhonePe, Google Tez, Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, and the likes have flooded our smart devices. This has caused a massive reduction in the usage of token currency made from paper.

Do you know those annoying bunches of paper that found their way to our mailboxes back in the day? Yes! Those newsletters have vanished to let the mailbox have some breathing space.

However, they still remain annoying as ever, just in a digital format.

The silver lining here is that we are saving paper and to avoid cutting of millions of trees just for the sake of those newsletters.

Love reading the news? You don’t need to rely on your paperboy to deliver it to your doorstep anymore. Most big media companies have made the transition to make their daily copies available online in the form of e papers.  Not only can you find millions of news articles at the tip of your fingers, but the need to store those old papers also vanishes away.

You can filter the type of news you wish to read and avoid going through clutters of unnecessary ads and unimportant listings.

Just like E-news, there is also an option to switch to E-books.

All these alternatives help save the trees that are so important for the well being of our environment and for the sustenance of life on Earth.

REDUCTION IN POLLUTION:

Production of paper involves using machinery that makes more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. For every 1 ton of paper produced, over 1.5 tons of Carbon Dioxide is released into the atmosphere and this is only the tip of a polluted iceberg!

Going digital reduces this pressure to control air pollution.

The waste produced by paper-related industries also does great harm to our ecosystem. Simply taking a digital initiative by saving your files onto a computer or online instead of on paper goes a long way in protecting the Earth.