{"id":272756,"date":"2010-02-03T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/02\/03\/newspapers-may-be-greener-but-what-about-redundancy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T17:42:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:42:50","slug":"newspapers-may-be-greener-but-what-about-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272756","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers May Be Greener, But What About Redundancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/02\/recycle-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1746\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2010\/02\/recycle-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>If you want to &#8220;green&#8221; your news reading, just go online, right? Ditch that dirty, landfill-clogging paper. Not so fast, argues Sarah Westervelt, environmental expert and activist. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/deadtreeedition.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/newspapers-are-greener-than-web-news.html\">recent article<\/a> on The Dead Tree Edition, Westervelt said that she was &#8220;too informed about what\u2019s going to happen to my computer when I\u2019m done with it&#8221; to feel good about reading Web news and gave a number of compelling reasons that newspapers are actually the greener choice.<\/p>\n<p>Among her reasons for rejecting e-news, as reported by The Dead Tree Edition, the toxic materials contained in electronic devices and a complex waste cycle (including more than a dozen plastics in each), combined with not enough value in re-use to make recycling the parts non-economical. Paper, on the other hand, comes from a renewable resource, doesn&#8217;t contain the toxic materials, and is highly recyclable.<\/p>\n<p>The post is a great read, and it certainly makes you think about the consequences of our wired world. (Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.whattheythink.com\/going-green\/2010\/01\/how-green-is-the-apple-ipad-part-2\">arguments that have been made<\/a> against Apple&#8217;s new iPad.)<\/p>\n<p>At the same time \u2014 and while I cannot disagree with Westervelt&#8217;s facts \u2014 this argument really only works if it&#8217;s an either-or proposition.  <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2010\/02\/03\/newspapers-may-be-greener-but-what-about-redundancy\/#more-1745\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~4\/AW9_h7uKflU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to &#8220;green&#8221; your news reading, just go online, right? Ditch that dirty, landfill-clogging paper. Not so fast, argues Sarah Westervelt, environmental expert and activist. In a recent article on The Dead Tree Edition, Westervelt said that she was &#8220;too informed about what\u2019s going to happen to my computer when I\u2019m done with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}