Yesterday’s Earth Day celebrations included this article in The Washington Post by Political Bookworm Steven Levingston that begins to compare the environmental cost of switching to eBook Readers from paperback and hard cover books. The eBook publishers tout the move to digital as more environmentally friendly, sidestepping the need to harvest the millions of trees required to feed the world’s appetite for paperbacks. However, as the article points out, the use of technology in eBook Readers raises the specter of toxic waste.
As I said, the article ‘begins’ the comparison. eBook Readers need time on the market for their environmental impact to be accurately calculated.
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Well, Washington Post is well-known for their socialist propaganda.
“The toxic effects of this e-waste have been well documented.”
Where? By whom?
Here is another article for balance http://www.ebookweek.com/ebook_environment1.html.