Sustainability

I work at a cardiologist office in the billing department. Every week we receive payment from the insurance companies and I think they are a waste of paper to produce all this statement, check, notifications, etc. In my opinion one of the main problems in our environment and the world is the unnecessary use of resources by business and society. The events of an ordinary work day made me open my eyes, as I came in to work I went to empty the PO BOX and I see an outrageous quantity of letters. As I pull and open each one of them I came across many checks for the amount of one cent. This company use of their resources and the resources provided by the environment doesn’t seem to be too sustainable. One of my first observations is the amount of men power and financial cost to send out a check for a cent seems useless. Producing a check for a cent is more costly than the actual economic value of the check. But my point is not the way of the corporation wasting money, I want to illustrate the amount of paper that this insurance companies use to seen useless information. They wasted all this paper to inform the providers when they can be more ecological friendly and use email to do perform this activity. Also the paper they use is folded in such a way that can we reuse in the printer. Over use resources is an activity every person, corporation, and society have engage over the years. The over use of paper is an activity that contributes to deforestation. According to National Geographic deforestation contributes to approximately 1 species per year from mammals and birds which extrapolate to approximately 23,000 species per year for all species. Also it is used as, or sold, for fuel or as a commodity. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse impacts on the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland.