Employees of PAC Doverie participated in Digital Cleanup Day

Employees of the PAC Doverie took part in the global Digital Cleanup Day campaign, which took place in mid-March. The aim of the initiative is to draw attention to the carbon footprint and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide generated when sending and storing unnecessary emails and files, for which servers use energy.

The total volume of deleted unnecessary data from the PAC Doverie is 105 GB, for the storage of which approximately 323 kg of CO2 (carbon dioxide) are required each year, equivalent to the burning of about 300 kg. of coal.

The organizers of Digital Cleanup Day point out that the average carbon footprint of an email is 0.3g of CO2 (carbon dioxide). If there are attachments, it can reach 50g of CO2.

Calculations show that if every person in the world deleted 10 emails, this would be equivalent to deleting 1,725,000 GB, which would reduce CO2 emissions by an amount equivalent to 19,356 tons of coal burned every day.

Sending 65 emails is roughly equivalent to driving 1km. Globally, email usage generates as much CO2 as having an extra seven million cars on the road.

If every British adult refrained from sending an email containing only the word “Thank you”, more than 16,000 tonnes of CO2 would be saved per year, the equivalent of 81,000 flights from London to Madrid, says Anneli Ohvril, one of the leaders of the Digital Cleanup Day project.