If you’re like me, you hate getting those spam faxes for great deals on mortgages. Not only do I not need to hear about any more impossibly good mortgages, I certainly don’t want any more trees to be killed to tell me about them. And no matter that spam by fax is illegal, according to the Federal Trade Commission—it still happens. The good news is that there are companies that solve the dilemma. It may not stop the spammers, but it does stop from needlessly killing trees.

Faxmicro (www.faxmicro.com) is only one of the companies that allows you to send and receive faxes without using any paper. This company offers a subscription starting at $4.95/ month.

For not much more than the price of a coffee, you get a fax number and all of your faxes are sent to your e-mail’s inbox. In addition to helping save paper, this is certainly the best part of the service—no matter where you are in the world, as long as you have access to your e-mail, you will also have access to your faxes. And, since the faxes automatically show up in your inbox a PDF file, you can decide which faxes—and which pages to print out. So, no more unnecessary faxes and no more wasteful cover pages. Plus for $.05 a page, you can send faxes anywhere in the U.S. and for an extra fee you can send faxes internationally.

With such conveniences, there’s no excuse not to reduce the paper clutter in your office and help our environment by reducing your consumption of natural resources.