Not systematically printing emails to save the planet has become a reflex for many people. But what Internet users know less is that their mailbox can also be very harmful to the environment.
Whether it’s advertising messages you will never read or emails read but not useful to keep, our mailbox is inexorably filling up, like Gaston Lagaffe’s late mail piece. On average, a French internet user keeps 5,289 unread promotional emails in his inbox ?!
An email is made up of a set of data, stored in data centers (or data centers). In addition to the energy required to run these powerful computer servers, it is also necessary to cool the machines, which heat like a boiling brain.
The billions of data exchanged every second in the world create digital pollution, very real and yet difficult for users to conceive, because they are far from our personal computers.
To raise awareness of this digital pollution, the organizers of the World clean up day, a nature cleaning operation that takes place this weekend all over the world, is being offered this year in virtual mode.
Clean up against unnecessary emails
This Cyber clean up day, or Let’s clean our data in good French, organized by the World clean up day France association and the responsible digital institute, invites Internet users to clean their mailbox, by eliminating unnecessary emails.
The blackcap and the fog net victims of the hunt
The operation is organized from September 16 to 20. It therefore ends today. It is not too late to trade the blow of vacuum cleaner and duster Sunday against a big cleaning of his computer. Each email deleted will reduce your carbon footprint by the equivalent of 10 g of CO2.
If you eliminate 150 mails, you will have saved the consumption of a one-way Paris-Nantes plane ticket. If you eliminate 1,000, that’s the equivalent of a Pars-Barcelona return trip saved. Worth clicking “delete” ?!
Geraldine Sellès
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