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!

According to a recent study on energy usage there are some 104m office PCs in the USA and approximately 60m home PCs, of this over 30m are regularly left on overnight or all weekend. This means that over $1.7billion dollars and almost 15 million tons of CO2 emissions are wasted each year in the USA.

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 15 million tons of office PC carbon waste could be easily avoided.