The Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator (EEBC)

Supported by US EPA, the University of Tennessee Center for Clean Products has developed an Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculator (EEBC) which allows purchasers or other parties to calculate the specific environmental benefits from the purchase of EPEAT registered green computers and monitors.

EPEAT Environmental Benefits Snapshots

Using the EEBC and sales data from manufacturers that participate in EPEAT, the Green Electronics Council annually publishes a report estimating the total environmental benefits arising from the purchase of all EPEAT registered products that year.  A snapshot of each year’s calculated benefits follows.   Click here for full reports.

Environmental Benefits of EPEAT Purchases, 2006

The first six months’ sales of EPEAT registered green computers when compared with traditional computers, produced the following environmental benefits:

• Saved 13.7 billion kWh of electricity, enough to power 1.2 million U.S. homes for a year;

• Saved 24.4 million metric tons of materials, equivalent to the weight of 189 million refrigerators;

• Prevented release of 56.5 million metric tons of air pollution, including 1.07 million metric tons of global warming gases -- the equivalent of removing 852,000 cars from the road for a year;

• Prevented release of 118,000 metric tons of water pollution;

• Reduced toxic material use by 1,070 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 534,000 bricks, including enough mercury to fill 157,000 household fever thermometers; and

• Avoided the disposal of 41,100 metric tons of hazardous waste, equivalent to the weight of 20.5 million bricks.

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