Did you know that 95% of the energy used by the UK’s mobile phone chargers is wasted energy? Only 5% is actually used to charge phones, the rest is used when the charger is plugged into the wall but not switched off at the socket. That’s over 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions that could be avoided if we all just unplugged our chargers after use – the equivalent of almost 500 football pitches’ worth of forest every year.
With some easy-to-do actions, you can probably halve the amount of greenhouse gas you produce. And you won’t reduce your quality of life one little bit. In fact, you’ll find you save money.
I'm taking this action. I was shocked when I discovered that the chargers continued to draw energy even when there was nothing happening on the charging front...
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