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A recent Swedish report placed newspapers at the centre of a rather surprising news story. The report found that reading the paper version of a newspaper can consume 20% less carbon than viewing the same news online.
A single person reading a daily printed newspaper in Europe uses the equivalent of 28kg of CO2 per year. A person reading web-based news for 30 minutes a day, the global warming potential is the equivalent of 35kg per year.
Screening Life Cycle Assessment of Printed Web based and tablet e-paper newspaper, Asa Moberg, Martin Johansson, Goran Finnveden and Alex Jonsson, Reports from the KDH Centre for Sustainable Communications Stockholm, Sweden 2007,
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