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Important! Let’s Delete Emails to Save Our Planet

  • Email has reduced paper usage, storing it on purpose still contributes to carbon emissions.
  • According to the International Energy Agency, China emits 9.3GT CO2, followed by the United States at 4.8GT and India at 2.2GT. Russia, Japan, Germany, and South Korea all have less than 2.0 GT.
  • Text-based emails emit approximately 4 grams of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent). According to the source, an average year of emailing emits about 136 kilograms of CO2e, which is roughly equivalent to driving 200 miles in a gas-powered car.

Emails can produce carbon dioxide, how come? In this era of globalization, technology is growing. This makes it easier to send letters using technology, namely email. People gradually transitioned from old analog letters to electronic mail. Because it reduces the use of paper, it is thought to be more environmentally friendly. While emails no longer contribute to paper pollution, the digital age has introduced new environmental concerns, and they continue to contribute to carbon emissions.

Most emails, including spam, unread emails, and emails you simply forgot you never deleted, are stored in the cloud. Cloud storage necessitates a significant amount of electricity, which is still generated primarily by fossil fuels in most parts of the world.

So, while email has reduced paper usage, storing it on purpose still contributes to carbon emissions. This means that the more emails you have in your inbox or email inbox, the larger your carbon footprint will be.

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According to the International Energy Agency, China emits 9.3GT CO2, followed by the United States at 4.8GT and India at 2.2GT. Russia, Japan, Germany, and South Korea all have less than 2.0 GT.

A total of 300 billion emails are sent each day, which means that as of 2019, 45 percent of an individual’s email is spam. That equates to 14.5 billion messages sent around the world in a single day.

According to theecofairy.com, global annual spam energy consumption totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). This is equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes while emitting the same amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) as 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion US gallons of gasoline.

According to The Good Planet, 293.6 billion emails are sent per day in 2019, which equates to roughly 107 billion spam emails in a single day or 24 hours. According to the report, if everyone on the planet deleted 10 emails (spam or not spam), that would be equivalent to deleting 1,725,00 gigabytes because storing 1 gigabyte of emails or 1,000 emails takes 32 kWh, resulting in 55.2 million kWh. As of 2019, there are 3.9 billion email users, so deleting 10 emails would save 39,035 metric tonnes of CO2e, which is equivalent to 19,356 tonnes of coal burned every day.

Text-based emails emit approximately 4 grams of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent). According to the source, an average year of emailing emits about 136 kilograms of CO2e, which is roughly equivalent to driving 200 miles in a gas-powered car.

Sending an email consumes approximately 1.7 percent of the energy required to deliver a paper letter, demonstrating that email is unquestionably a more environmentally friendly option than snail mail. In terms of energy, sending 65 emails is equivalent to driving a mile in your car, according to the outlet.

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In a given year, data centers consume about 1% of all electricity consumed worldwide. It may not appear to be much in the grand scheme of things, but when you consider the data centers used by software companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, it appears inevitable that this 1% will grow with each passing year.

No one can stop Google from creating more data, but we can reduce our own environmental impact by managing our own junk mail. Deleting old emails or those that take up cloud storage space is one option for lowering your carbon footprint. The simplest way to reduce your carbon footprint on the computer is to delete emails, but that is not the only thing you can do. You could also unsubscribe from emails or newsletters you don’t intend to read, or delete those emails once you’ve finished reading them.

According to The Eco Fairy, you can also reduce the size of emails by lowering the resolution, compressing images, and avoiding large HTML elements. Clean and maintain mailing lists on a regular basis. Remove any contacts who unsubscribe and immediately update any changed email addresses. To avoid the need for a follow-up email, thoroughly check your emails before sending to ensure they contain all of the necessary (and correct) information. Instead of attaching files or information, link to them online.

Editor: Riana Nurhasanah

References:

[1]Deleting Emails Might Help Lower Your Carbon Footprint

[2]Save our Planet by Deleting emails

[3]Save our Planet by Deleting Emails

[4]Hapus Email yang Gak Penting Bisa Bantu Selamatkan Bumi Loh

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