Go Green and Email Large Files

Whether you’re a multi-billion dollar company or an individual who wants to email large files (like videos) to your family, we all have a part to play in protecting our environment. Environmentalism is not just a moral imperative: more and more businesses are discovering the cost-saving benefits of “going green”, and using a service that lets you email large files can save you time, money and CO2.

Email large files and save the planet!

Email Large Files and Save the Planet

Here are some statistics for you:

  • Making paper is the third-largest industrial cause of greenhouse gas production in the world
  • It takes one tree to make 85 lbs of paper
  • Making paper uses a lot of water: it takes over 100 gallons of water to make 5 lbs of paper!
  • Besides saving you the frustration of splitting your files, here’s another reason not to break your files up and send them via multiple emails: sending one email uses energy equivalent to burning 3 lbs of coal

Burn a Disc or Email Large Files?

Many individuals and companies still ship discs for a number of different reasons. Large file transfer trumps them all, not just in terms of security and cost-effectiveness, but environmentally, too:

  • CDs and DVDs are made of plastic, which means greenhouse gases: making one CD or DVD discharges 3 lbs of CO2 into the air. With over 200 billion CDs sold worldwide in 2007 alone, it adds up to a lot of CO2
  • Shipping them costs both money and GHGs: for example, shipping a few discs from San Francisco to San Diego, California will release over 325 lbs of CO2 into the atmosphere

Save our lakes and rivers every time you email large files

You can’t argue with the math: every time you email large files with FilesDIRECT you ease the strain on the planet AND your pocketbook – now that’s return on investment!

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