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I can’t fathom the cumulative carbon savings from a helper tool which universally prints double sided correctly. Billions of misprinted sheets must have been d
by ACAVJW4H 6y ago
I can’t fathom the cumulative carbon savings from a helper tool which universally prints double sided correctly.
Billions of misprinted sheets must have been discarded over the years. Even more if you add the single sided prints because two sided printing was too complicated on a consumer device.
- konjin 6y agoPaper is pretty close to a carbon sink, so the more CO2 you sequester.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoHow much CO2 is sequestered in a sheet of paper, vs how much CO2 is needed to turn trees into paper?
- foobarbecue 6y agoI don't know but I'm pretty sure my first Google result for that conflates source and sink: https://www.standardcarbon.com/2008/06/do-you-really-need-to-print-that-the-carbon-footprint-of-copy-paper/ https://www.standardcarbon.com/2008/06/do-you-really-need-to...
- nine_k 6y agoThe problem is that most paper that goes to general trash ends up being burnt or degraded by fungi in a landfill, releasing carbon back to the atmosphere.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agothe current default printing order seems correct to me if you turn it into a booklet, if you are reading it as a bunch of unbound paper then this way seems more efficient.
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