2008 US purchases of EPEAT registered laptops, desktops, and monitors over conventional products will:

• Reduce use of toxic materials, including mercury, by 1021 metric tons, equivalent to the weight of 510,949 bricks

• Eliminate use of enough mercury to fill 149,685 household fever thermometers

• Preclude the disposal of 43 thousand metric tons of hazardous waste, equivalent to the weight of almost 22 million bricks.

• Eliminate 14,353 Metric Tons of solid waste, equivalent to the amount 7202 U.S. households generate in a year

In addition, due to EPEAT’s requirement that registered products meet ENERGY STAR’s energy efficiency specifications, these products will consume less energy throughout their useful life, resulting in:

• Savings of over 8.39 billion kWh of electricity — enough to power over 700,000 US homes for a year

• Reduction in use of 14.8 million metric tons of primary materials, equivalent to the weight of more than 114 million refrigerators

• Avoidance of 34.2 million metric tons of air emissions (including greenhouse gas emissions) and over 71,000 metric tons of water pollutant emissions

• Reduction of over 1.57 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions — equivalent to taking over one million US passenger cars off the road for a year

• Reduction of 2.8 million metric tons of primary materials

• Elimination of over a million kilograms of toxic materials, including enough mercury to fill 157,311 household fever thermometers

• 16,297 Metric Tons of solid waste eliminated

• Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing 2.3 million US cars from the road for a year