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Sign up for e-versions of your electricity bill

Why This is Green

Converting to electronic banking saves trees and gasoline, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and even saves water. According to the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, despite the fact that there are 40 billion bills and other company documents mailed yearly, only 15 percent of us opt out of the paper cycle and pay online.

Opting out is a good idea. How much paper your individual household can save depends on how many bills you’re getting and how many people you live with. The collective impact really adds up. Pay It Green, an organization that promotes electronic billing, says that if 20 percent of households switched from paper to e-billing, statements, and payments yearly, the collective savings would be 150,939,615 pounds of paper and 1,811,275 trees. Collectively this would mean not producing almost 2 million tons of greenhouse gases, not creating over a billion gallons of wastewater during paper production, and not using over 100 million gallons of gas to mail payments.

You might even avoid late fees; e-bills aren’t easily lost and the dog cannot eat them. You also never have to worry about running out of checks or stamps.

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How To

Most electric companies offer e-billing. Find out what your company’s plan is and opt in.

Going to individual websites to pay all of your e-bills separately can be a deterrent to going paperless. There are sites now offering one place to pay all e-bills. Some banks also offer this option. Check them out to see if this works best for you.