As business customers continue to turn to Verizon for a wide range of communications and IT solutions to drive better outcomes, they are finding a strong environmental partner in the process.
Typically, an enterprise's monthly telecommunications bill can fill many boxes with paper, and consume significant amounts of energy as bills are transported from one location to another. By reducing paper and associated transportation, Verizon's customers are able to reduce their carbon footprints while streamlining business procedures. Moving to e-billing has helped Verizon customers eliminate more than 290 tons of paper yearly.
"As a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals and performance-enhancing products for an array of industries around the world, ISP is utilizing the e-billing solution to not only control costs, but also to reduce paper consumption and the amount of CO2 emitted during the traditional billing transportation process," said Eileen Bostonian, telecommunications billing analysis and coordinator at ISP. "By working with Verizon, we have leveraged their e-billing solution to help enhance the efficiency of our business operations while simultaneously reducing our carbon footprint."
For each of its customer's billing accounts that have been converted to paperless billing, Verizon has donated funds to the American Forest's Global Releaf program. Through this initiative, more than 100,000 trees have been planted since 2007, with 70,000 planted in 2010 alone.
"Paperless bills are more useful to our customers in terms of both business and green benefits," said Mark Chodoronek, executive director of Verizon's e-commerce and digital customer enablement. "In addition to meeting their environmental goals, companies like ISP can make more informed decisions about their communications and information technology spending by analyzing billing data in a user-friendly digital format."
Verizon's e-billing solution makes monthly bills more useful to its customers -- from security and ease of use, to streamlining operations efficiencies and increasing productivity. The e-billing solution also enables customers to efficiently analyze data and create reports, and to have access to Verizon's Global Billing report, which is available in 10 languages.
