This is a great piece I had read a few days ago. How much of it is true? well the entire three lines is accurate.
If you tweet or use Facebook, e-mail or instant messaging, you are to blame for creating the largest pile of permanent waste in the history of mankind. Nice going.
Never mind that your messages are ethereal wisps of digits and electrons and that 99% of them are useless a few seconds after they are created. They are 0s and 1s that will be stored on some disk drive somewhere whether you want them or not, ready to be retrieved by your grandkids, prosecutors and historians for all eternity.
What it also says is, we tend to be so consiously not printing on paper to save trees and be green, but what we fail to realize is all this data gets stored on machines which, most of them cannot be 100% recycled, so where does it end up? What green initiative are we initiating? Keep thinking, that’s what I am trying to do.
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