{"id":362665,"date":"2010-02-25T06:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2205"},"modified":"2010-02-25T06:19:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T11:19:45","slug":"paper-or-digital-which-format-is-better-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362665","title":{"rendered":"Paper or Digital:  Which Format is Better for the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"128\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:0U9U1kxFW0-TkM:http:\/\/www.thedailygreen.com\/cm\/thedailygreen\/images\/paper-pile-lg.jpg\" alt=\"stack of paper\" title=\"stack of paper\" \/>Along the lines of which is better for the environment &#8211; paper or plastic bags is the &quot;which is better for the environment&quot; paper or digital format for documents.&nbsp; Bet you are leaning towards digital &#8212; I am.<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; main selling points &#8230; of eReaders is that they are greener than print. &#8230; common view held by consumers &#8230; is that going digital means going green and saving trees. Many are in for a rude awakening. &#8230; subjected to &lsquo;cradle-to-cradle&rsquo; life cycle analysis, eReading is not nearly as green as many naively assume it is.&quot; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"127\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"87\" border=\"3\" align=\"right\" title=\"eReaders\" alt=\"eReaders\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:5VyAy8c0MBWTtM:http:\/\/blogs.nyu.edu\/blogs\/bmg258\/berniestakeonthead\/ereaders.bmp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; Computers, eReaders, and cell phones don&rsquo;t grow on trees and their spiraling requirement for energy is unsustainable.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; digital devices require a constant flow of electrons that predominately come from the combustion of coal, and at the end of their all-too-short useful lives electronics have become the single largest stream of toxic waste created by man&#8230;.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ZDNet\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/doc\/?p=771\"><strong>Via:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a> ZDNet&nbsp; LINK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the lines of which is better for the environment &#8211; paper or plastic bags is the &quot;which is better for the environment&quot; paper or digital format for documents.&nbsp; Bet you are leaning towards digital &#8212; I am. &quot; &#8230; main selling points &#8230; of eReaders is that they are greener than print. &#8230; common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362665","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\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}