"I've wondered if paper becoming phased out would be beneficial from the perspective of environmental impact, but from what I'm aware of paper production can be reasonably sustainable. I'd need to read into balancing the lifetime costs of digital technology vs the lifetime costs of printing books"
Thank you for this point! It was one I hadn't even thought of when I was doing the Friday Five. Following that point though, I am very happy to throw a broken down book into my compost because it is paper and worms will eventually eat it, but eReaders need complex recycling. I don't think there are any 100% recyclable eReaders so there would be waste involved. So there are production and end of life concerns for eReaders but books only have production concerns.
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Date: 2020-04-27 02:49 am (UTC)Thank you for this point! It was one I hadn't even thought of when I was doing the Friday Five. Following that point though, I am very happy to throw a broken down book into my compost because it is paper and worms will eventually eat it, but eReaders need complex recycling. I don't think there are any 100% recyclable eReaders so there would be waste involved. So there are production and end of life concerns for eReaders but books only have production concerns.