Reducing The Carbon Intensity Of Ict Services

Electronics Recycling. Electronic recycling is one consideration the company can do better with. Recycling in general lowers greenhouse gas emissions that are caused by manufacturing items for the first time. Recycling electronics conserves natural resources making cleaner air and water. The valuable resources computers and electronic components carry are metals, plastics, and glass. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), recycling a million laptops would give back enough energy for 3500 American homes’ electricity. A million cell phones would could yield 35,000 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold, and 33 pounds of palladium. Instead of throwing out the old computers and blackberry’s, the company could simply upgrade the hardware or software and then recycle the parts necessary.

Environment conservation and protection is an issue, which has gained prominence because of deteriorating environmental balance which is threatening the sustainability of life and nature. Nowadays, environment problems have become the big matters. Every tech companies have to take the key roles to solve them including Intel. The company has proclaimed the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The Initiative’s goal is to reduce global computer CO2 emissions by 54 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10-20 coal-fired power plants. This clearly shows that Intel is trying its best to reduce the pollution of the environment.

The report takes a look into the sustainability practices carried out by Intel. Intel has carried out incremental innovation in order to drive its sustainability activities. It has helped other industries and governments with technology-based solutions to tackle sustainability challenges which include Open Energy, Renewable Energy, Water Conservation and Water Consumption. Intel identifies its greatest contribution to the environment in the potential its services and solutions in IT have to offer, in order to help its clients and suppliers contribute to sustainable development. The report also addresses the question; How Intel can improve sustainability results by conducting changes in its operations.

The heavy usage of machinery and fossil fuels required in industrialization leads to high amounts of carbon emissions. The mass amount of raw materials used in each industry accumulates and

In today’s society, information technology has developed to become an essential component of business processes within various industries and has irrevocably transformed the way businesses work by providing more productive, efficient and a more powerful means of producing resources. However, it has contributed to the world’s environmental challenges and caused detrimental effects on the environment via the pollution elicited by manufacturing, wasteful disposal of computers and components as well as the toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing process which can enter the food

As used electronics is becoming a waster hazard worldwide local governments such as where I live include programs at local waste stations purely for electronics. This encourages local residents to freely drop off their electronic waste, like TV’s and computers and mobile phones to these locations where the waste is sorted and than shipped to facilities that can process this waste appropriately which also includes recycling as much material as possible. This has a

It has become the new “norm” with people to replace their electronics because their devices become out of date or they feel like they have to have the latest thing. In the article “Our E-Waste Problem Is Ridiculous, And Gadget Makers Aren’t Helping,” by Christina Bonnington, the author discusses how people buy new electronics every year when they come out and the old ones get abandoned. She also talks about how many people aren’t properly recycling their old devices and how some electronics can be impossible to recycle the right way. She also talks

Dalton Public Schools is currently encouraging that all of its schools go paperless and begin to put all of its assignments and grades on a website called Canvas. This would be a remarkable idea to encourage its staff to be environmentally friendly. Normally, I would include students in my previous statement but while the laptops are a step in the good direction, they have their faults in terms of being environmentally friendly. These

Firstly I will be going over my methods of research and how I was able to derive my embodied greenhouse gases of IT devices number through the analysis from Teehan and Kandlikar (2012) and refining it by using other research such as the writings from Deng, Babbitt and Williams (2011) which focused in on the resources required through every stage in the process of manufacturing these devices. Using my number, along with the number calculated by my peers, I will formulate an average emission rate (per person) to get a reasonable number for what a typical first-world consumer might contribute to. I will analyze and discuss the data received in order to determine ways of improving our carbon footprint, and

Developing countries have made harmful contributions to our environment. Each year, 20-50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed. The largest e-waste

The pamphlet "Australia's e-waste a ticking time bomb", distributed by an unnamed environmental organisation, serves as both a warning to its readers as well as a useful informative resource on the topic of 'e-waste' - that is, unused technology that has become landfill. The writer adopts an informative yet cautionary tone in an attempt to show readers the urgency with which the problem needs to be addressed. They contend that Australians should aim not to remove technology from their lives altogether, but to seek out ways to be more sustainable users of it. By appealing to readers' concern for the environment and revealing the risks for their own health, the writer seeks to establish fear and, as a result a desire to reduce their own personal

Because carbon footprints are such hot topics in the news these days, it's an ideal topic for this particular paper. As concerns about global warming and potential climate change have continued to evolve the term "carbon footprint" has become ingrained in many people's consciousness. Though the large Fortune 500 companies focus on reduction of their own carbon footprints, individuals can help in their own small way as well.

One positive implication capitalism has to the natural environment is industrial ecology, a system of chain production and consumption, serving to the lowest environmental impacts in a most environmentally sustainable economy as the main goal of operation (Richards & Pearson, 1998). The Companies in a like to operate in such way because of four major reasons. The most important factor is known as the corporate well-being, for it is determined by higher profits and growth provided by innovations in an industry. Profits are increased from recognizing the production ineffiency costs that comes from wasted inputs and energy losses; this allowing cost savings to increase and ineffiency to decrease. compliance with cleaner technology alternatives such as ones that produce less waste and less energy will provide long term savings which are both beneficial to the environment and the business at hand. A real world example freight company changes their salvaged driving equipment to hybrid vehicles. Money is temporarily lost, but the gasoline and maintenances cost savings will compensate in a long run period of time.

Our planet faces serious problems, ranging from high emission rates, to extreme waste, we are using the equivalent of approximately 1.6 planets to provide us the resources we require to produce and absorb our waste (“World’). The result of this radical overuse of resources is less forest cover, global warming, air pollution, depletion of fresh water and the overall buildup of pollutants. "Nearly two-thirds, 63%, of all industrial carbon dioxide and methane released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be traced to fossil fuel and cement production by just 90 entities" (‘Largest Producers”). All 90 of those entities are big businesses with even bigger data. Many companies have started using big

These days many of people have their own computer especially for university students because they will always need it to do the assignment from their lecturer and now we can find a computer in every house Some even have more than one. However, the problem is when the computer has been used over an extended period of time and sometimes get damaged due to age factor, and also computers can also be damaged caused by viruses as a result of misuse by the owner. If it has happened, it means that the owner t has to go to computer service center to clean up the virus otherwise they waste their computer although the best option is recycling in order to minimize electronic waste. Because According to the United Nations environmental program research data, there is an estimated 49 million metric tons of waste generated from electronic and computer products on an annual basis on a worldwide scale (epickup.co.nz, n.d.). And also, computer equipment contains materials that can be hazardous to human health and the environment if they are not properly managed (Northwestern.edu, n.d.). That is the reason why we need electronic recycle. Electronic recycling means the practice of reusing, or distributing for reuse, electronic equipment and components rather than discarding them at the end of their lifecycle. Nowadays, there are many kinds and methods of recycling that exists in the world especially for electronic devices, namely computers, because computers have a significant role in our