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Always striving to involve customers in new environmental ideas and initiatives, Anachem, have come across an ecological genius, the Ecobutton.

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How does it work?

Manufactured from recycled plastic, the ecobutton acts as a strong visual reminder and prompt to save electricity each time your computer is left inactive.

It is illuminated and sits on your table/desk top next to your keyboard; it connects to your computer via a USB cable.

 
Each time you take a short or long break, make a phone call, go for a meeting etc. you simply press the ecobutton and your computer is put into energy saving ‘ecomode’ which ensures that both your computer and monitor draw only the same amount of power as when they are shut down.
Under normal circumstances people generally don’t like turning off their computer due to the time it often takes to restart. However, with the ecobutton by simply pressing any key on your keyboard (some computers require a momentary press of the power button) your computer instantly returns to where you left off.
 
Additionally, each time your computer is put into ‘ecomode’ the clever ecobutton software records how many carbon units and how much power and money you have saved by using the ecobutton. Over time this can add up to quite a lot (especially if you have many computers running in an office) and you can use this data to help reduce your carbon footprint as well as your energy bills.
 
The Savings

A small to medium sized business running 50 computers could save around 3.40 tonnes of CO2 and over £1200 per year of electricity by using the ecobutton for just 2 hours per day. A larger business running 500 computers could save over 34 tonnes of CO2 and over £12,000 per year by using the ecobutton for just 2 hours per day.

2 hours might seem a lot but the time your computer is left redundant soon adds up. For a start, a lunch break normally around 1 hour, now include a few phone calls, say 30 minutes per day, a couple of trips to the loo, another 15 minutes, and that meeting you’ve been hoping to avoid and soon enough your computer has been left running alone for at least 2hrs.

A domestic user running a single computer can make an equally valuable contribution to the environment by saving *135kg of CO2 per year and approximately *£50.00 in electricity per year by regularly using the ecobutton.
 
 
The Environmental Impact of PCs left running Idle in the UK

Computers and monitors can account for half of the electricity used in a typical office. A single monitor left switched on overnight can use the same energy as a laser printer producing 800 A4 printed copies, and don’t be fooled by a screensaver – the computer is still working at full power to run this.

There are around 10m offices PCs in Britain and approximately 20m home PCs, of this 1.8m are regularly left on overnight or all weekend, according to a recent study on energy wastage. Based on this study, around 1.5 billion kWh of energy is wasted by computers and monitors being left on – that’s approximately £115 million wasted in the UK every year! Convert this into carbon and we waste around 700,000 tonnes of carbon due to workers not switching off computers and monitors in the UK alone.
 
All this office computer waste can be easily avoided by adopting simple energy saving policies which are supported by energy saving devices like ecobutton.
 
Based on the study figures, nationally, with one small click, 700,000 tonnes of office PC wasted carbon could be avoided.
 
 
If you would like to read more on the ecobutton please go to www.eco-button.com.