Carbon Footprint of Paper versus Electronic Invoices

One of my Green ICT students pointed out the very useful paper “Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Paper vs. Electronic Invoicing” ( Tenhunen, Maija and Penttinen, Esko, 2010). They found electronic invoices reduce the carbon footprint by 63%. Most of the saving comes mostly from reduced manual labour, not reduced paper production or transport. Abstract In this paper, we assess the carbon

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