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The smartest and most sustainable way to use IT devices is to maximize their useful life
It is well known that anyone who uses a notebook or PC needs electricity and when buying new devices, it makes sense to use energy-saving devices due to the increased energy costs, and not just for sustainability reasons. This keeps your personal CO2 balance low.
Nevertheless, it doesn't always make sense to replace an old notebook or PC with a new, more energy-efficient device. Because a notebook or a PC consumes many more resources than just electricity during operation.
How much CO² do IT devices consume?
When a newly purchased IT device stands on your desk, it has come a long way: the mined raw materials have been transported to the production facilities where the individual components of the device (microchips, cables, circuit boards, etc.) were manufactured. We then moved on to final assembly, i.e. assembling the individual parts into the finished device. It was then transported to the wholesaler and from there to the middleman before it was purchased from the end customer dealer.
The Freiburg Öko-Institut calculated on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency in October 2012 that a notebook that is used for five years produces 138 kg of CO2, but a total of 214 kg of CO2 is produced during the manufacture of the laptop. This means that almost two thirds of the total CO2 emissions arise from the manufacture of the device. By purchasing a new, more energy-efficient device, you use a little less electricity, but increase CO² emissions several times over. It is also in the interest of the environment to continue to use a notebook that has already been produced and is in use, even if it consumes a little more power during operation.
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The manufacturing process is resource intensive!
IT devices contain many valuable and rare raw materials (copper, platinum, gold, rare earths). Their mining is only possible with considerable use of water and chemicals, which means that the groundwater level in the mining areas is continually falling, the groundwater is contaminated with pollutants and rivers are drying up, which in turn has significant consequences for regional agriculture. In addition, the mining process exposes heavy metals that are harmful to health and pollute people and nature. For example, 32 liters of water are required to produce a microchip; a desktop PC with a monitor requires a total of around 1000 liters of water.
And it's not just the funding methods themselves that are problematic. The conditions for the workers are also extremely precarious. Miners often suffer lifelong consequences due to inadequate occupational safety and direct contact with the chemicals.
High quality pays off
For the reasons listed above, we only rely on high-quality goods. With us you can get business notebooks from Lenovo, Panasonic, Dell, Toshiba and HP at reasonable prices.
We don't stock cheap brands because we know that the higher quality is also reflected in a significantly longer lifespan and running time of the notebook and that the quality of the devices is also of greater benefit to us in all other areas (feel, workmanship, performance, emissions). offers customers. That's why we work closely with our partners to provide notebooks of the best possible quality
Our “reuse” business model
Sustainable business in IT is becoming an increasingly important issue in the still growing industry. Durability and reuse help ensure fewer resources are spent on our digital infrastructure. Our natural resources such as water, air, soil, plants and animals will thank us. But above all the future generations, to whom we will leave a protected ecological system.
The smartest and most sustainable way to use IT devices is to maximize their useful life.