Strange concern about the environment

Neither consumers nor companies have developed a great amount of environmental awareness in Poland. Igor Zalewski of the daily Polska jokes about the first attempts of companies to save paper by using electronic invoices: "Nowadays environmentalism is almost as trendy as making jokes about the Kaczyński brothers [the politicians Lech und Jarosław Kaczyński]. … There are already some examples of our appreciation for nature. Certain companies are trying to persuade their customers to dispense with paper invoices and do their invoicing in electronic form instead. The wood saved this way will benefit future generations. … Then there's this cable television company called UPC that also no longer wants to send paper invoices and is trying to get its customers to accept electronic invoices. However it has an interesting way of going about this: it sends its customers the message about saving on wood on paper in letter form."

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