|
|
130 Responses to “The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones”
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
-
[...] The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones | iamgreen®. If you liked this story, share it with your friends: [...]
-
[...] See the infographic in full at: iamgreen [...]
-
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Theresa Houck, Mark Everett Hall, Eric Gordon, Brad Monterioand others. Brad Monterio said: RT @greenforyou: 140,000,000 cell phones (4 per second) will end up in landfills this year… #green http://bit.ly/18Ukl5 [...]
-
[...] A little change can make a big difference. < Finding the right place to market to consumers | Login | [...]
-
[...] impactul asupra mediului [...]
-
[...] purge clearly holds no sway in my home. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. According to iamgreen, cell phones are responsible for an enormous amount of waste and an eye-popping cumulative impact [...]
-
[...] The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones | iamgreen® yikes those numbers add up. via maoxian (tags: Mobile Phones Environment) [...]
-
[...] This post was Twitted by MyGBB [...]
-
[...] By lotharf Man muss nicht unbedingt gut Englisch können, um diese recht gut aufgemachte Grafik verstehen zu können. Trotzdem eine Übersetzung bzw. Umrechnung einiger [...]
-
[...] environmental impact of cell [...]
-
[...] The Environmental Impact of Cell Phones | iamgreen® mal asunto. (tags: mobile environment visualization green infographics phone stats cell blog phones) [...]
-
[...] Via bloggen Nätkoll.se fick jag nys om den här informativa och snygga grafiken skapad och publicerad hos Sayiamgreen.com. [...]
-
[...] „i am green“ į įspūdingą informacinę diagramą sudėjo kai kuriuos mobiliųjų telefonų poveikio gamtai skaičius. Jie neatbaidys mūsų nuo [...]
| iamgreen™ has one commitment: to make every cell phone and computer in the world green. It's that simple. | 
|
- Eco-Friendly Packing Peanuts Demonstration
- Environmental Action - Weekly Address - 11/19/2010
- SOLAR - Power station could solve water crisis
- DIY The Cheapest Solar Panel System EVER Cheap Solar Power
- Photo Gift Box - Eco-Friendly Craft Ideas by Shiho
- Honda 3R-C eco friendly Tron trike in the flesh!
- Tesla: Test Driving the Sexy, New Eco-Friendly Roadster
- Al Gore Global Warming in 10 min
- Solar Powered Home Wind Batteries #1.diy
- Carbon Footprint
- Saromatae: But if the windmill was just vertical instead of h...
- RooftopWind: hi, nice video. Friends and Subscribers welcome i...
- arolas: Someone pleas kick the inventor hard from me, bef...
- zkxv: @arolas And what have you invented eh Cecil? No...
- arolas: @zkxv bether no invention, than reinventing the w...
2011
Building
Carbon
Change
Climate
Craft
EcoFriendly
emissions
Energy
Environmental
Episode
Footprint
Friendly
from
Global
Green
home
Homes
House
Ideas
Interview
Iran
Lifestyle
living
Masuda
Money
Movement
Norwegian
panel
Part
Plant
Planting
Power
Project
Recycling
reduce
reducing
Shiho
Solar
Sustainable
Tree
Trees
Turbine
Warming
Wind
© iamgreen™. Powered by Wordpress.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Great Banner! Very informative.
September 17th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Some of the numbers aren’t truly accurate, but it still gives one a good idea of how easy it would be to make a positive impact by changing their cellphone usage habits.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Love the graphic. Unbelievable stats… Who knew?!
September 17th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
cool graphics, i will def unplug my charger more often, and always have recycled old cell phones anyway.
September 17th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Cell phones are very good carriers for swine flu…and ultimately will cause the end of human existence!!!
September 17th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
My Cell phone is charged from my solar panels and inverter….
September 17th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
WOW…..REALLY IMPRESSIVE AND QUITE ALOT TO THINK ABOUT!
September 18th, 2009 at 12:57 am
Interesting work. Made me think…
September 18th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Great banner! Really great work. Let’s hope it has an impact on peoples lifes as more needs to be done to raise awareness. Sell and recycle your old mobile for cash at Sell Your Mobile
September 18th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Wow! Had no idea.
electronic cigarette
September 18th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Here in France we send older – but still working – mobile phones to Africa. Same with old PC’s.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Thanks very informative, Im heading to the Dump with my mining hat to look for that gold
September 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Awesome website!! Love the graphics and the info is very interesting!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I checked some of these numbers and …WOW..great post!
September 18th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
I charge my cell phone with pure whale blubber.
September 19th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Whale blubber? And all this time I have been using baby pandas. You learn something new every day.Very informative.
September 19th, 2009 at 5:48 am
ohhh
This is really breathtaking
September 19th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
how much emission is there involved in photoshopping a banner?
September 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Stumbled!
September 19th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
something i love about my blackberry (and im sure other phones do it too) is the feature that allows the phone to turn on/off on a schedule.
mines set to turn off at midnight every night, and turns on at eight. it saves me so much battery and its really handy.
September 19th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
It’s just simple… BUILD A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT! 4 Nuclear reactors will charge 100% of all the cell phones in the world, all day long, all year round, without one CO2 molecule.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
True facts: Recycling the phones would take more energy then making new ones from raw matiral, due to the fact that all parts would need to be separated, sorted, shipped, sold, shipped, melted down, sold, shipped, melted again to shape parts, put together, shipped, and finally sold to the customer.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:29 am
This doesn’t even mention coltan
http://www.cellular-news.com/coltan/
September 20th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Now, let’s talk about the environmental impact of the computers used to preach the environmental impact of humanity.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying you should fix your own footprint too.
Just a thought.
September 20th, 2009 at 2:14 am
omitted is the fact that cellphone radiation kills bees
September 20th, 2009 at 3:31 am
2 aluminum cans from any recycle bin fashioned into earpieces, connected by a long length of string would emit almost no emissions. However, the production of the string and aluminum cans emits 16 million tons of CO2 per year. Yelling is the future of communication and the greenest of all methods to date.
September 20th, 2009 at 6:47 am
gr8…
vErY iMpressiVe & enlIgHteniNg…………..
rEallY…a fact
September 20th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Whale blubber and baby pandas Huh? Over here they took away the eagle and spotted owl ( in which..Yes, They do taste like chicken ) so we have been reduced to butterfly’s and bunny’s to charge our phones….learn something new everyday.
September 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am
James: It was omitted because it’s not true.
September 20th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Your numbers are wildly inaccurate.
My phone has a 1000 mAh battery @ 3.7V which is 13 kJ of energy. I charge it about once a week, comes to about 0.7 MJ of energy a year. The number of 4221 is too large by nearly four orders of magnitude. I don’t know what kind of cell phone uses 6000 times more energy than mine, but it would be too hot to put next to your ear. 4221 MJ works out to about 133 Watts running continuously for a year. You know those 100 W incandescent light bulbs? Know how hot they get? They use a lot more power than a cell phone.
Please pull this wildly inaccurate and misleading post.
September 20th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Wow, very informative (albeit disturbing) article on cell phone usage. Most people don’t think that something so tiny and harmless has the ability to create so much damage to that around us.
September 20th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Bob: You only charge once a week ? You must have like a 25 minute plan a month- lol. I might as well walk around with a charger in my pocket!
September 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
There is a charger called a Powerstick from EcoSol that works off the usb on your computer. It is compatible with all cellphones. You remove the charger from the computer to charge the phone thereby solving the always plugged in charger problem.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Yes I have a Powerstick also. Great little device that I carry around with me all the time.
Nigel
September 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Love the graphics and the info is very interesting!free flv to avi
September 20th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I love this graphic- Wow. Your site and
your cause is so cool. Keep up the good work.
September 20th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
WOW that’s awesome! i love the layout and it’s very informative! great job…
September 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
32 gallons of fuel is WRONG.
One kilo of gasoline holds theoretically 43,9 Megajoule of energy. And abaout 32 in real life.
And that is 1,43 litre of gas. wich is 0,375 gallons.
4,221 MJ is equal to a light bulb of 8 watts thats on for a year.
320 gallons of fuel would be enough to heat my house for one year, but a 80 watt oven would not.
September 20th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
sorry meant 0,133 watts!!!!
September 20th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
HAHA, anyway, the banner says the phone uses 4,221 MJ equal to “32 gallons” of fuel. but the transfer network uses 939 MJ thats equal to “7,3 gallons” of fuel. i wonder how much fuel is wasted on people that does not do their homework at scool.
September 20th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Without a cellphone many people will feel worthless and unproductive, it seems that these devices came to stay for ever with humans on an everyday bases.
Recycling them and making more respectful to environmental issues is a great idea, replacing them with materials that will not harm the earth, the drinking waters is the right thing to do. Using these cell phones for working and emergencies purposes is what they were manufacture for first time meanings also and not really to drop them in the streets or the forest as garbage or disposal. including batteries too. For you that want to shop for one on sale with newer technology http://solidamerica.com/Stores_Solidamerica_Amazones/phones/Cellphones_Telefonos.htm in America’s best stores online. Thanks for visiting.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:08 am
So if there are 140,000,000 cell phones in the world, and this accounts for 4.7 tonnes of gold, this means every cell phone would have 14,000 lbs of gold in them! You’re fucking outrageous, quite lying to everyone. SO MANY OF YOUR NUMBERS ARE WRONG.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:15 am
Going to go unplug my charger right now.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:26 am
Aren’t they toxic waste though? I’m thinking of all the crap that’s being used in cell phones …
If manufacturers had to recycle their products we would be living on a much cleaner planet for sure. (Because right now there’s no or very little additional cost to pollution)
September 21st, 2009 at 7:24 am
@Matt Walsh
You should maybe double check your math before accusing others of not having the right figures.
By your estimate of 14,000lb of gold per phone, with 140,000,000 phones, that equals1,960,000,000,000lb, which equals roughly 889,041,045.2 tonnes…
September 21st, 2009 at 8:45 am
i didnt change my cell from last 4 years…
September 21st, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Makes me feel good for keeping my phone off most of the time. And for charging it maybe once a week.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:49 pm
@Ivar
The MJ figure you are referring to includes the impact of the entire life-cycle of the phone, including production, destruction, and usage which you are referring to. You are right in that the actually energy use when in your hands is minimal, however this is typically only 5% of the total energy usage during it’s life-cycle. The production phase accounts for about 80% of that energy use.
Hope that helps.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:15 pm
So it says it’s equivalent to that much gas and will produce that much CO2 but it’s not actually producing any CO2 at all is it?
September 21st, 2009 at 9:15 pm
yes but the new HTC Leo is so cool.