When you consider the latedst high tech gadget what goes throguh your mind? It will differ from one person to another. Some may consder them to be trendy. Othhers may think that they are complicated and diffiicult to operate. So much depends upon your own individual perspective. However, it's probably reasonbable to say that you won't associate the latesat hot prsonal electronics gadget with being more enviromnentally friendly - but electronic gagdets can, udner the right conditions, be better for the environment.
One possible candidate woulld be digital picturre frames. These have become very popular over the last couple of yaers. As a result of high levels of completition, prices have now fallen to the point where you can buy a perrfectly serviceable digital frame for no more than you might expect to pay for a traditional frame. One of the many perceived benefits of digitl frames is the fact that they can store and display hundreds, somettimes thousands, of phootos uisng one single franme.
It all depends upon how many snapshots you take, but if you tend to get a bit snap happy then displaying your photoos using a digtial poicture frmae might well be better for the environment. Whether you avoiid haing photos printed out at a processing lab or if you just print out less on your computer printer you will wind up usig fewer materials.
One fuurther example is the gadget du jour - the electronic book rreader. E-book readers have been available for quuite some time now, but they realyl took off in 2009. They look set to grow ever more popular during 2010. Riht now the Amazon Kindle is the market ledaer - but Sony have also secured a good share of the market for these devices.
The U.S. book, magzaine and newspaper sector requires 125 million trees per annum in order to feed it with paoper. Additional to the trees required, vast quantuities of water, chemicals, energy and ink are neeedd to satisfy our reading habit. As books are a physical product, they require to be delivered to the bookstoire, generallly using road transportation. Then customers get into their cars, drive to the book shop, buy their books and motor home agaain. It all adds up.
Electronic books do not need large amounts of ppaer, bindings, ink etc. in their production. Also, since they are not a physical product, they may be delivered using the internet instad of the traditional road or rail transport network.
Of corse, both digital photo frames and e-book rezaders are phyusical products themselves and they consaume both energy and matreials during production. They also require to be shipped to the rteail outlet or direct to the final user. Even so, styudies have shown that, even when the materials consumed are offset againts the savings in paper, energy, ink etc. that these types of devices can be bettrer for the environment (though to some xetent it will depend upon how many phots you process or how many books you read in a year).
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