TransACT is greening its mail

You may not realise that mail has a carbon footprint but it does and there are five billion mail items delivered in Australia each year. TransACT, together with ActewAGL, is doing what it can to reduce or help offset the carbon emissions associated with its paper-based mail and has recently engaged Green My Mail.

Green My Mail works with organisations around Australia that use large volumes of mail to make their mail communications more environmentally friendly by facilitating the planting of Australian native trees to help offset the associated carbon emissions.

Recently Green My Mail conducted a review of the quantities of TransACT and ActewAGL letters that are distributed. Based on this review, over the next 12 months around 10,000 Oil Mallee Eucalypt trees will be planted to help sequester carbon emissions.

TransACT is committed to environmentally friendly practices and already offers its customers an online payment option, epayplus. Through epayplus customers can elect to view their bills electronically, rather than receive a hardcopy, and pay them using direct debit or another payment option.

The Green My Mail initiative further demonstrates that even for those customers who are unable to utilise a greener online payment alternative, TransACT is still doing its part to help the environment.

To help promote this initiative all TransACT envelopes will soon carry the Green My Mail logo.

For more information about Green My Mail visit greenmymail.com.au