What companies hide: the high carbon impact of making our electronics (full webinar)
Channel: The Restart Project
Date: 2021-09-09

From laptops to toasters, every device we buy comes with a hidden environmental cost. Understanding this hidden cost is crucial to reducing our overall impact and how repair can help us do that.

We’ve been on a mission to reveal the environmental impact of the products we use every day. In this webinar, Jessika Richter from The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics in Lund, Sweden and James Pickstone from The Restart Project shared what we learned and explored questions like:
- how do you measure the carbon footprint of a device like a smartphone?
- how can you find this kind of information?
- why does this matter?
- how can we reduce the impact of our electronics?

Find written summary of our research here: https://therestartproject.org/consumption/hidden-impact-devices/

And access the raw data here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TBhczzDaJhANTMh3eoouMOFZ7PvlmyrEQMqnw9WfdHY