The true cost of personal computers

greenbiz.com 03 Oct '12, 1pm

The true cost of personal computers

Trucost calculated the financial costs for the environmental impacts of a desktop and a laptop. It is worth noting that we used industry average data and that, of course, there is significant variation among products. We analyzed the stages of the product lifecycle — from raw material processing and manufacturing through to transportation, use by the customer and endisposal or recycling. The carbon emissions, water, and waste flows were calculated for generic products in each category. Note that for the use phase we did not include the emissions arising from the Internet (data centers), only the electricity consumed by each device. Trucost then calculated the “natural capital” cost of each of these environmental impacts. For carbon we used the social cost. For water, a local issue, we correlated the volume of water required to produce the raw materials with local scarcity ...

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