In a recent partnership with the Canadian Evaluation Society, I learned that they are greening their conference in a variety of different ways, including using Techneos Entryware mobile survey software to eliminate paper surveys.This got me to thinking, how much paper can really be saved by eliminating paper surveys? So, I decided to do a little math.
While we don't know about every project our clients run, we do know that Techneos software has been used to conduct at least 10 million mobile surveys (and probably far in excess of that). The average survey uses about 15 pieces of paper, which means Techneos has saved around 150 million pieces of paper. Very impressive.
So then I got to wondering about how that affects the environment. Since one ream (500 sheets of paper) uses 6% of a tree, then that means we have also saved over 18,000 trees.
And, since 36 maple trees absorb approximately 1 ton of carbon over a 25 year period, then the trees we have saved will allow over 500 tons of carbon to be absorbed.
So just think how much paper your company could be saving if it switched from paper surveys to mobile survey software.
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