Digital Clean-Up – National Spring Clean

In the digital world, similar to the environment, there is a huge amount of trash: unnecessary emails, files, apps, duplicates of photos and videos are all digital waste.

When we use the internet or social media, we contribute to CO2 emissions. While individual usage only generates a small amount of emissions, the problem this poses on our environment is clear if we take into account the collective amount of carbon emissions.

The carbon footprint of the internet and the systems supporting it account to about 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions, the same amount produced by the airline industry. Each year the internet and its supporting systems produce 900 million tons of CO2 and some studies estimate that in a decade the internet network will consume 20% percent of the world’s total energy. (Source)

National Spring Clean wants to support digitalcleanupday.org, which are calling people to  Cut down your CO2 share, join the Digital Cleanup Day movement,
from 1st of October 2021 to 20th March 2022!