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[Team Synerion](https://blog.synerion.com/author/team-synerion) Jul 21, 2011 12:14:00 PM Automating your time and attendance system is not only much simpler for the HR department, but it also cuts down on the use of a very valuable resource – trees. We recently logged onto a very interesting website called [Eliminate Paper Time Cards](http://www.eliminatepapertimecards.org/), and listed below are some fascinating statistics on the use of paper time cards. It takes 4 tons of wood (approximately 24 trees) to make 1 ton of paper One ton of paper will make approximately 200,000 paper time cards or 8,330 per tree. According to the United States Department of Labor, there were a total of 135,185,230 employed in the United States in May of 2008. Therefore, taking these numbers into account, if only 10% of the employees in the United States use 1 paper time card per week, the number of trees used for paper time card production per year would be in excess of: **84,000 Trees each year in the U.S. Alone** It is estimated that there are 6,700,000,000 people on earth. If we estimate that only 15% of the total population of the world is gainfully employed and only 10% of those are still using 1 paper time card per week (100,500,000). The number of trees used for paper time card production worldwide per year would be in excess of: **627,000 Trees per year Worldwide** Cut down your company’s ecological footprint and be environmentally friendly by investing in an [automated time and attendance system](http://www.synerionwfm.com/)! *Article source:* [*http://www.eliminatepapertimecards.org/every-year-nearly-900000000-trees-are-cut-down-to-provide-raw-materials-for-american-paper-and-pulp-mills/*](http://www.eliminatepapertimecards.org/every-year-nearly-900000000-trees-are-cut-down-to-provide-raw-materials-for-american-paper-and-pulp-mills/) [Blog](https://blog.synerion.com/topic/blog) ## Read On ### [A small business owner’s guide to time sheet tracking apps Tracking your employees time sheets with apps is a great way to keep track of when your workers...](https://blog.synerion.com/a-small-business-owners-guide-to-time-sheet-tracking-apps) ### [How Much Time is Being Wasted With Your Current Time Tracking System? 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