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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
Are you referring to the 1 percent emissions from recycling an iPad? Does recycling other electronics have significantly lower emissions than 1 percent?
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Y'know, you're right, that's my bad... I was looking at that graph in another way: How much effort put into recycling the product (or a part of its production), which can be small if the product is
essentially not recycled.
But as you point out, the graph is probably meant to suggest that recycling an entire iPad only creates 1% emissions... which, to me, still sounds low... unless the other processes are really so much worse than you might expect.
A lot of electronics production is still rife with waste, excesses and inefficiencies that artificially inflate a product's carbon impact. Some manufacturers are voluntarily cleaning up their acts, but many others (taking advantage of local legal loopholes and lesser standards) can use a lot of improvement.
Cleaning up production would go a long way towards lowering the breakeven point between print books produced and device usage.