[LINK] Greenhouse contribution of letters

[Richard Chirgwin]

Stephen,

I've never seen such an analysis. But it occurs to me that to assess the 
marginal improvement would need to take into account a large number of 
behavioural factors. For example, since you can bet that lots of people 
will print the e-mail documents:
- what's the inefficiency penalty (in greenhouse terms) of having 
millions of documents printed on home inkjets instead of bulk printed?
- what's the greenhouse impact of encouraging more use of short-life 
home printers (leading to more replacement of consumables and more 
frequent replacement of the printers themselves?).

It would be an interesting exercise, if  you could get the study as an 
independent analysis rather than the more usual computer industry 
self-promotion ("Paper Bills A Greenhouse Burden, Study Finds"),

Cheers,
RC

Stephen Wilson wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen any analysis of the contribution to greenhouse of 
> paper letters, as mailed by banks and governments by the hundreds of 
> millions?
>
> And what might be the marginal greenhouse improvement of using e-mail 
> instead?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephen Wilson
> www.lockstep.com.au.
>
>
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