Tips on how to limit your carbon footprint

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	How to reduce your carbon footprint

 

Below you will find some practical tips that can help you reduce your carbon footprint and therefore participate in the reduction of greenhouse gases to mitigate global warming.

1/ Limit the environmental impact of your Internet use from your phone

• If possible, use a wifi connection rather than a mobile network.

Using wifi consumes on average 10 times less energy than the mobile network.

• Download your content in advance when you are connected on wifi rather than watching it on the mobile network.

Watching a video streaming at 1.6 Mb/s for 1 hour consumes about 420 Wh on the mobile network, but only 20 Wh on wifi with fiber.

• Activate the "Data Saver" (Android) or "Low Data Mode" (iOS) option in your phone settings.

This feature prevents applications from updating regularly with content and automatically reduces mobile data consumption.

• Set a lower default resolution when watching videos on your smartphone. High resolution for small screens does not always provide a better viewing experience.

Limiting the resolution quality can divide the data consumption by 2 times or more.

2/ Limit the environmental impact of your phone

According to the ADEME, the French change their phone on average every two years. And 88% of them change it while the old one is still working...

• Keep your smartphone longer: extend its life cycle, and curb the production and renewal of our devices too fast
• Recycle your old phones and help preserve the planet's natural resources.
• Give a second life to your phone with the trade-in.
• Opt for reconditioned phones, by acquiring a mobile like new.
• Limit the use of your smartphone to what is strictly necessary.

Note:

The carbon footprint of the manufacture, distribution and purchase of a phone represents about 80% of the overall life cycle of a mobile.

The ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) recommends acting according to 5 commandments:

• Avoid over-equipping: by questioning one's need before any purchase. Do I really need it? Is it possible to do with what I already have?

• Buy more durable goods. For example, the European Ecolabel provides guarantees that environmental consequences have been taken into account, and the energy label helps you compare household appliances at a glance.

• Avoid oversizing equipment: in the same product category, the use of larger products (for televisions, smartphones, tablets or screens) leads to higher carbon and material weights in proportion. This market trend́ to larger screens will increase the contribution to climate change in the coming years.

• Avoid renewing too often: Fashion effects, advertisements, promotional offers... There are many incentives to buy new equipment that offer us new features and a new design. 88% of French people change their cell phone while it is still working.

• Increasing the lifespan of products: this requires manufacturers to design products that are more easily repairable, more adaptable to technological changes and easier to maintain. For consumers, this means maintaining their goods, respecting their normal conditions of use, repairing them or having them repaired in case of breakdown, when possible, and/or giving them a second life, by giving them away or reselling them.

Did you know that...?
The digital sector currently accounts for 4% of global emissions, the equivalent of the aviation sector.
These emissions are distributed as follows
- Terminals (computers, connected objects, etc.): 66%.
- Network: 19% of total emissions
- Data centers: 15%.

(Source: Green IT)