eLife combines the convenience and safety of electronic banking with the desire to preserve the environment. Realizing every little effort helps, eLife enables consumers to manage their finances securely online, while also contributing to the conservation of our earth’s natural resources.

While experiencing eLife, consumers can benefit from the convenience of online banking and bill pay eliminating the need to write checks and purchase stamps reducing the consumption of natural resources such as trees, clean water and air, benefiting the environment.

Did you know?

Consumers Can Save 17 Million Trees and Avoid 4 Billion Tons of Greenhouse Gasses Each Year by Eliminating Paper Checks and Bills.

The Yearly Benefits – If All U.S. Households Viewed and Paid Bills Online:

• Saves 2.3 million tons of wood, or 16.5 million trees.
  
  
• Reduces fuel consumption by 26 million BTUs – enough energy to provide residential power to San Francisco for an entire year.
  
  
• Decreases toxic air pollutants by 3.9 billion pounds of CO2 equivalents (greenhouse gases), akin to having 355,000 fewer cars on the road.
  
  
• Reduces toxic wastewater by 13 billion gallons, enough to fill almost 20,000 swimming pools.
  
  
• Lowers solid waste generated by 1.6 billion pounds – equal to 56,000 fully loaded garbage trucks.
  
  
• Removes 8.5 million particulates and 12.6 million nitrogen oxides from the air – on par with taking 763,000 buses and 48,000 18-wheelers off the streets.
  
  
• Saves landfill space and curbs the amount of toxic chemicals, including methane gas, released into the atmosphere as paper decomposes.

Source: Javelin Strategy & Research