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How to be more sustainable when you use mobile devices and computers?
Tips, why to do it and good places to go!
Technology is amazing. Nowadays, there is no need to be a nerd to feel anxious when Wi-Fi breaks, especially since the lockdown due to the pandemic of COVID-19.
My generation is the one who is considered as a numeric native in western countries: at five, I had my phone to go to school, the famous Nokia 3310. Ah, that one, you could rage drop it on the wall, and it was still like a brand-new phone!
*Nostalgia*
However, technology is not as clean as companies want you to believe. Or at least, it depends on what you do about it.
Let me tell you the story of this girl who, on one side needed the last new MacBook soon as it was released but who, on the other side was talking about ecology, arguing that the fact she wasn’t using any paper was proof of her love for the environment. I was de facto more conscientious that my friend who was writing on the paper sheets.
‘Bullshit?’
Yes, but back to then: no. The problem was not the brand Apple, no. It was me, yes. My selfishness required the newest stuff on the market, and the best one! Just to write my lessons, please! Or I was looking like the famous grumpy cat…
