100 cars’ weight of waste from resident communication
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If a housing company with around 40 apartments distributes one paper notice per apartment every month, this adds up to about 2.4 kilos of paper waste per year. That may not sound like much—until you look at it on a larger scale.
For 100 housing companies, the total is already 240 kilos of paper waste per year. In Finland, there are over 65,000 apartment buildings. If each of them used paper notices once a month, it would generate more than 155,000 kilos of paper waste, the same weight as 100 passenger cars.
The problem is not just the paper
Printing, distribution by car, and even recycling—which is easy to overlook—also put a strain on the environment. And in housing companies, paper is used for more than just notices: think about reservation books for common spaces, for example. When you add it all up, the impact equals several extra cars on the calculation.
The environmental footprint of paper-based resident communication is therefore significant. Which raises the question: isn’t it time to leave paper slips in the past?
Many housing companies and property managers have already made the switch. Today, 155,000 residents have access to our digital housing platform. They can read real-time information, guidelines, and manage bookings, all digitally.
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This article is an ai-generated translation of the original article in Finnish.