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 millions office and home PCs in Australia, of this over 1 million could be regularly left on overnight or all weekend (according to a recent study on energy wastage). Based on this study, over 1billion kWh of energy is wasted by computers and monitors being left on – potentially over $100million wasted in Australia every year! Convert this into carbon and we waste thousands of tonnes due to workers not switching off computers and monitors.

All this office computer waste can be easily avoided by adopting simple energy saving policies which are supported by energy saving devices like ecobutton™.

Nationally, with one small click, literally 1000s of tonnes of office PC wasted carbon could be avoided.