Writing Checks = Environmental Waste

Checks seem like tiny pieces of paper, but writing checks uses more resources than paying online and using debit cards. Checks can consume natural resources in any of the ways below when they are:

• Printed and shipped to you
• Mailed in to pay bills
• Destroyed (or recycled) by banks and payees

Using checks means that you have to use:

• Paper and ink to create them
• Fuel, roads, and wear-and-tear to ship them
• People's time and energy to process them

Further reading:

• Pay Bills Online
• 3 Reasons to Avoid Online Bank Accounts
• How Debit Cards Work
• Debit Transactions - Choose Debit or Credit?
• Secrets of Great PIN Numbers