Environmental Issues
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What are environmental issues?
• Concern the natural world and the negative effects of producing, using and discarding computer systems and devices.
Energy and Material Consumption:
• Thousands of new devices are manufactured every day. • Plastics, metals, rare elements and electrical power are used to assemble and run the devices. • Web servers and data centres must be powered all day, using lots of energy.
Pollution and Waste:
• Generating electricity to power computers creates pollution. • An average PC could require up to 50% more energy per year than a fridge. • Computers are difficult to recycle. • Discarded components can lead to land, water and air pollution due to harmful materials like lead and mercury leaking into the environment. • People should reuse and recycle their devices.