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Originally Posted by HarryT
Paper manufacture is not a terribly environmentally-friendly process. See:
Environmental Impact of Paper
With e-readers, the main pollutant is the manufacture of the battery and the screen. In essence, you're swapping one polluting manufacturing process with another. It's difficult to compare environmental impacts directly, because they're different types of pollution. |
Books are greener. The manufacture and distribution of both are decidedly ungreen, BUT these things can be regulated. Disposal is much tougher to manage and an e-reader in a landfill is much worse than a box of books in the same landfill.