Environment
Whopping 50,000 pounds a year!
This is the average amount of CO2 an American produces each year from electricity, heating, road and air travel, including the consumption of energy needed to make our food, clothes, iPods, and more; About 140 pounds for every person, every day.
With increasing numbers of people utilizing air travel, aviation and the environment are on a collision course. The number of airline flights worldwide is expected to skyrocket over the coming decades. According to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, an independent group of scientists that advises the British government, by 2050 aircraft emission pollution threatens to become one of the largest contributors to global warming. On a New York-to-Denver flight, a commercial jet generates 840 to 1,660 pounds of carbon dioxide per passenger, approximately equivalent to what an SUV generates in a month.
At ClerkePass we advocate “going green” to help the environment. By shipping documents using ClerkePass, every year the world could save 7 billion pounds of pollutants associated with air and road travel such as CO2 and Nitrous Oxide. While this difference is small when examining all the factors that contribute to global warming, it is one step closer to a solution, and every step counts.
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