Ecological Benefits of Two Rivers Conference Calling

There are many ecological benefits achieved by replacing face-to-face meetings with conference calls in your business or organization. Many of these benefits arise from reducing the need for meeting related travel while other benefits are derived from the operational efficiencies gained by frequent users of the technology along with TRC’s use of environmentally friendly service delivery practices.

Understanding the underlying parameters of a typical conference call yields important insights about the ways conference calling limits the consumption of natural resources and reduces the impact of pollution on our environment. TRC has long noted that an average conference call connects five participants together for an average duration of fifty minutes. By so doing, each conference attendee avoided fuel-intensive mass transit or personal transportation and the resulting pollution such transportation adds to our environment. In addition, our customers report using conference calls reduces the amount of paper (e.g., note pads and presentation handouts); plastics (e.g., food and beverage containers); and other supplies (e.g. hotel supplies) purchased or consumed during business travel.

Business managers frequently use our conference service to stay in regular contact with employees and other managers working at remote facilities. These frequent users report keeping in regular contact often results in a leaner management structure resulting in fewer requirements for expanded office facilities and related increased use of office supplies all of which consume natural resources and add to the production of waste materials. In fact, many report additional reductions in resource consumption were achieved simply by adding the topic of progress on “green initiatives” to the agenda of recurring conference calls!

Adding to these above mentioned benefits are TRC’s own environmentally friendly service delivery practices. These include the use of paperless electronic invoicing and the option of allowing our customers to pay on the use of our services via one of several major credit card providers.

We encourage all our customers take immediate steps to achieve the many ecological benefits by replacing face-to-face meetings with conference calls is in their business or organization.