There are various shades of eco-friendly electronics – choose your green level the next time you need some new electronic gear.
Greenish electronic gear:
- Look for electronics that carry the Energy Star label.
- If you’re trading up electronics check online to see if the company who manufactured your equipment has a recycling program.
- If you can’t find a manufacturing recycling program check with Earth 911 to find a place to recycle your electronics.
Greener electronic gear:
- Before replacing broken gear with new gear see if you can fix it.
- If you really need to upgrade and your old gear is still good, donate it to a non-profit organization.
- Visit the Rethink Initiative to find information, tools and solutions that make it easy and sometimes even profitable – to find new users for idle computers and electronics, and to responsibly recycle unwanted products.
Greenest electronic gear:
- If you’re shopping for a large business or company check out the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) system to find the best and greenest electronics.
- Beyond simply buying greener electronics make your usage green too. I.e. green your computer use, unplug equipment when not in use, and so on. How you use your electronics is just as important as choosing greener electronics.
- Before upgrading REALLY consider if you actually need new gear. Most of the time people upgrade with no reasoning other than they just want a new toy. That’s not very earth friendly. One of the greenest steps you can take in almost any consumer situation is to buy less stuff.
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