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If you’re back in the office on Monday January 5th, it’ll have been eleven days since you’ve sat in front of your PC or laptop, and at least the same length of time since you sent a document to print.
So before you go, switch off your PC/laptop, it’s monitor and any printer that’s near you. They don’t need to be turned on.
For every 1000 PCs/laptops + monitors switched off over the Christmas and New Year break, ESB‘s CO2 footprint will reduce by about 10 to 20 tonnes.
To generate that amount of CO2, you’d have to drive 50,000 to 100,000km, or fly return from Dublin to New York 9 to 18 times.
15 to 30 trees would spend a lifetime absorbing the CO2 accounted for by the same 1000 devices during this holiday period alone.
Plant the trees anyway, and switch off too !
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