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Carbon Footprint of manufacturing a TV

JLedbury — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:34:12 GMT

Hey guys,

I'm new here and was just wondering if anyone knew about the footprint of manufacturing a TV?

I can't seem to find any of this information anywhere, just the Carbon Footprint of watching TV

Cheers Guys

Re: Carbon Footprint of manufacturing a TV

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:36:03 GMT

Hi there

Im not surprised you cannot find any information on this. This would be very difficult to calculate indeed, consider the following:

Different companies manufacture different parts for the TV
Carbon footprint of the machinery to dig the raw materials required out of the ground (metals, silicon, oil etc)
The manufacturing process of turning the raw materials into usable parts (electronic chips, wires, plastics etc)
Shipping and transporting raw materials, processed materials, end product around the world

There is a load more that would need listing to calculate this, hence the problem of too many hands/companies to get any reliable data (even if they collected it)

Cheers

Re: Carbon Footprint of manufacturing a TV

JLedbury — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:46:27 GMT

Yeah i have found it very hard so far. As part of the business i work for we are currently going "Green" and are looking at all of our inventory to try and calculate our initial footprint.

Thank you for your response, i will relay this information to my boss