Thursday, June 30, 2022

Is There Any Way to Measure Whether a Laptop Is Truly ‘Sustainable’?

Shopping for a laptop that doesn’t suck can be a confusing experience. And it’s even more baffling if you’re trying to find a more “sustainable” option. Laptop manufacturers make hundreds of claims—carbon-neutral, ocean-bound plastics, carbon offsets, planting trees—and it’s difficult to sort out which of those are just greenwashing and which approaches actually reduce the environmental harm of making, shipping, and using a laptop. What if there were a way to measure a laptop’s total environmental impact with a single number so that you could buy the “best” one for the planet? Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple.

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from Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/measuring-laptop-sustainability/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed

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