Green Computing

What is digital pollution?

Why are we worried about digital pollution today?

Is recycling hardware easy or difficult?

• Somewhat difficult
• Very easy
• Moderately easy
• Difficult

Explain why recycling hardware is difficult.

What can consumers do to reduce e-waste?

• Repair, Reuse, Recycle

• Buy devices less often

• Throw away their electronics

• Keep it at home

• Refuse to use technology

What can companies do to reduce e-waste?

• Design products that are easier to repair

• Have common standards for cables and components

• Focus on making more and more powerful machines

• Burn all discarded electronics.

What is a data centre?

What criteria do we have to take into account to evaluate our digital carbon footprint?

How can we reduce our digital carbon footprint?

• Delete unnecessary files from the cloud or reduce cloud computing use

• Use AI to optimise the time humans spend on tasks

• Reduce steaming quality or streaming time / Prefer to download content on local storage instead of streaming

• Buy all of the new, more performant devices to use the internet