Environmental Myth Busted
So here we are thinking we’re being environmentally friendly by uploading files to websites to be read online or burning them to CDs rather than printing them.
A study conducted and published in Finsbury Green’s publication: Green Paper Guide, demonstrates that less CO2 is generated by the conventional method of printing. The study used the example of a 700-page report: The Stern Review.
If a book is printed it will only omit CO2 once. Reading a book online was a hard one to measure accurately as the viewer may revisit the document several times and may even print sections to read a hard copy so this one was only calculated per online visit. In addition to generating the most amount of carbon, CDs and DVDs are also non-recyclable so just added to landfill.
Isn’t this study a surprising outcome?!
Yours in Design,
Amber van Sloten
