Green Options » ecoenvelopes http://greenoptions.com/tag/ecoenvelopes Posts tagged 'ecoenvelopes' Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:23:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en How to Green Your Mail http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/02/21/how-to-green-your-mail/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/02/21/how-to-green-your-mail/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:23:03 +0000 Paul Smith http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/02/21/how-to-green-your-mail/ Depending on your business, mailing can be a major expense and large use of resources. But it doesn’t have to be that way. EcoEnvelopes is a new company that has created reusable envelopes. As in they can be two-way, between you eE logoand your customer, eliminating the need for reply envelopes. It’s been said that a mailer, in order to be effective, needs 6 distinct pieces to it, to engage the potential customer in a number of ways. With such a visually striking mailer as the ones offered by ecoEnvelope, it could take much less then that.

These envelopes can serve the dual purpose of reducing resource use in terms of paper, handling, and tracking, and at the same time shining a green light on your company. With more then 80 billion reply envelopes mailed each year in the US, this is not an insignificant impact. According to ecoEnvelopes, every one million ecoEnvelopes used saves an estimated 250 million BTUs of energy and 37,000 pounds of greenhouse gases.

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