This document discusses the environmental impacts of electronics and internet usage. It notes that electronic waste poses a major problem due to the lack of proper management and recycling practices. Electronic waste contains pollutants like lead, mercury, and brominated dioxins when improperly disposed. It also contains valuable materials like gold and copper. The document also discusses how data centers consume large amounts of electricity, with over half of some companies' server energy coming from coal plants, emitting thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. Proper recycling and more efficient data centers are proposed as potential solutions.
2. Affects Of Internet And Electronics
Over The Environment
Benefits of Internet
Social Media
Effect of Web
Search
Spam Email
3. Affects Of Internet And Electronics
Over The Environment
Electronic waste poses a
major problem due to absence
of scientific management and
recycling practices.
4. Electronics Waste(E-Waste)
What is E-Waste?
The US-EPA has estimated 5%-10%
global increase in the generation of
E-waste each year.
Effect of E-Waste?
Pollutants like Pb, Hg, Cr,
hydrocarbons, PAHs, brominated
dioxin etc.
Valuable substance: Gold, Silver,
Copper etc.
9. Affects Of Internet and Electronics
Data Centers
Why do data centers
consumes so much
electricity?
10.
11. If Data Centers are more
efficient, where does
the environmental
problem come from?
Singapore Data Center
Data Centers
12. How clean is your cloud?
It is found that 55.1% of the
electricity used by apple servers is
generated by the coal plants, as is
49.7% of the energy is used by
IBM servers..
These considerable figure email
thousands of tons CO2 emitted
into the atmosphere
13. Bad effects of co2
Twenty mg of co2 are
generated every second that
someone is using a simple
Web Browsing.