One million pieces of paper will be saved each year thanks to a move to electronic filing by the courts.
Councils and police will now be able to file infringement notices to district courts online.
The electronic system has been in place in some places a round New Zealand since the beginning of March and will be compulsory from September.
Already the police and Auckland City Council, who were responsible for 75% of infringement notices filed last year, have taken on the system. That means 66,000 pieces of paper a month won't be gathering dust in a rack somewhere.
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Once everyone is using the system Courts Minister Rick Barker estimates the savings will amount to a million pieces of paper a year.
