The theme for the second Sustainability week is 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - virtually' - highlighting the need to reduce waste both at home and but also digitally. The week will highlight to employees and customers the impact of waste- including encouraging everyone to do a digital declutter to reduce our impact on the environment.
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This Sustainability Week, we're engaging with employees and their families to get people thinking about their homes and how these can be greener -and also how much data they use at work.
Did you know
When sending an email there are many steps that result in producing carbon emissions, from the power used at data centres to the power computers use to send, filter and read the messages. A standard email has a footprint equivalent to 0.3g of CO2 emissions. This can rise to 50g when the email has a large attachment
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To put it into perspective... if every adult in the
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Between 2012-2017,
However, despite these sustainable changes the volume of data that is being processed continues to grow, so energy consumption can't be cut back every year. So we're helping employees to reduce our energy consumption by changing to more sustainable digital practices and carrying out a digital declutter.
We can all help to reduce our energy consumption by changing to more sustainable digital practices such as mailbox management, deleting unwanted files and sending short messages on an instant messenger - saving that inbox! Why not have a digital declutter this week too?
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