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Thinking how we at DBS contribute to CO2 emissions.
As Ireland's largest provider of third level education, we have our role to play in monitoring how we produce CO2 and various other pollutions into the environment, as well trying to be more conservative with our daily energy habits. With the large number of students we have and the nature of what we do, our college offers a considerable amount of CO2 emissions and other pollutions on a daily basis. Although CO2 production is inevitable for most organisations, we can be more efficient and 'Greener' in what we do. Let's raise the bar.
Flicking off the lights on the way out, turning off projectors, recycling properly and keeping the A/C off are just basic ways to kick start the movement in-house at DBS.
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Since the start of the 2016/17 academic term we have printed nearly 2,000,000 individual pages at DBS (staff & students). 2,000,000 individual pages. That's not including CO2 production to power each machine, the heat each of them produce and the ink required to make these pages happen. This figure is very alarming. So to give you a better understanding of this level of this out put let us break the CO2 emissions down for you:
2,000,000 pages = 124 trees and around 16,000 kg of CO2
16,000 kg of CO2 is equal to the following:
- A 747 could fly for 30.30 minutes non-stop
- An average car could be driven for 25.90 days non-stop
- The energy use of an average house could be met for 449 days
- A 42 inch LCD TV could be used for 10.94 years continuously
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