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Assessment
- To upload before the presentation tomorrow
- We can do a video, just make sure it’s available in Teams
- The difficult part is to find green it actions
- If people can’t speak during the presentation because of thechnical issues, no problem : others can speak or video
Don’t mix up the Green IT with corporate obligations. We should talk about the actions taken to reduce the impact on the environment.
There used to be a club called Club Green IT, good lead for a subject.
SDG
- Put the SDG at the end of the presentation
- We don’t have to develop them, just do orally the presentation on the first part
- One sentence per SDG is enough
- We are not asking for a report, just put bullet points
GHG emissions
What is the point of computing GHG emitted by a company ?
To prepare an action plan to reduce them.
Metal in IT
China owns most of the rare earth production, they can choose to not provide it anymore.
We have to be careful about metals in IT, some resources are low and the price may rise.
Average computer lifespan
- 1985 : 10 to 15 years (average lifespan of 10 years), easy to upgrade, fix, reuse and recycle
- 2007 : lifespan dropped to 2,5 years
- launch of Windows Vista => most companies had to change equipment because the hardware couldn’t support the new OS versions
- same problem for MacOS
- perfect example on how they did not consider that everyone had good enough hardware
- 2015 : 3 to 15 years (average lifespan of 5 years), impossible to upgrade, fix, reuse or recycle
Impacts on the life cycle
What are the impacts at each stage of the life cycle ?
Production
What are the environmental impacts of the components ?
40 chemical components in a smartphone, including rare earth.
- Part of our electronic equipment are mined in unsanitary conditions and uses child labor => confilct minerals
- pollution
- high production rates
Use
- Devices with various energy efficiency
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End of life
- 1,68 millions tons of electronic waste put on the market in 2015
- 166 times the Eiffel Tower’s weight
- 75% of electronical waste is out of the official radar
- sent to illegal landfills (Ghana, Nigeria, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South America)
Production has the biggest impact on the environment.
Vocabulary
Green IT
Continous improvement process aiming at reducing ICT ecological, economical and social footprint.
IT For Greem
The approach that uses digital with th objective to reduce environmental impact.
Sustainable design for digital service
Approach allowing to integrate environmental, economical and social aspects in the design of a digital service.
What is Eco Design ?
Eco-design is an innovative approach.
Stages of the life cycle
- Raw materials
- Focus on renewable/recycled materials
- Volume/weight reduction
- Manufacturing
- Choice of cleaner technologies
- Reduction of the number of parts and materials
- Reduction in assembly operations
- Reduction in production waste and emissions
- Distribution
- Eco-design and packaging
- Reduction of the weight / volume ratio
- Logistics optimization
- Sales
- Consideration of the eco-design of POS advertising and other sales support
- Eco-design of shops
- Usage
- Increase durability (reliability, repair, modularity, etc.)
- Promotes updates (recharge, etc.)
- Switch from product to service
- Shared use og the product
- End of life
- Separable materials
- Material recovery
- Component recovery
- Product recovery (reuse)
Digital Accessibility
Example : Color Blindness
About 8% of men and 0.5% of women worldwide are red-green colorblind.
Make sure to use colors that everyone can see.
Green IT Actions
