I'm not really sure what your point is. If the original point that cell phones have less impact than phone books on the environment is still what we're discussing, then I'd say again it's false. There's *more* transport necessary for cell phones, as they all come from overseas manufacturing. Worse so is that the countries making said electronics don't have as stringent emissions laws so the pollution is even worse. The process of creating plastics and circuit boards requires much more pre-processing and consumes much more energy, and that's not even including the mining process to get copper and other metals that's part of the circuit boards. The process to recycle electronics is also much worse than that of recycling paper products. And of course all these cell phones come in... boxes... made of paper. And what about the manuals and warranty cards? Paper.
And of course... you can plant more trees. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's a lot of trees. Good thing they are a renewable resource. > > http://www.projectevergreen.com/why-green-matters/environmental-benefits/ > "One tree can remove 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere > annually, equaling 11,000 miles of car emissions." > > Each year, enough trees to remove 55B miles of car emissions is used > to produce phonebooks. ...and I wonder how many additional vehicle > emmisions are added as a result of transporting all those dead trees > around? > > -Cameron > > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339096 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
