How Deleting your Spam mails will save the world?🌏📧
Hey there humans, Namaste and Welcome to yet another series of blogs where I will cover some problem statements and their solution using UX/UI design which should be apprised to everyone.
In this blog, we will understand Carbon footprint and its relation with emails.
So far today, you are likely to have sent or received emails, Anyway once an email has been sent it’s out there in your inbox forever, somewhere around the globe. Is this even an issue?
Each email we share or send depends on electricity to view and when the email is being forwarded, the network connection uses electricity. Each server will need some power to hold it briefly, before sending it on while the email moves through the internet.
It becomes obvious that everything, including every small and insignificant aspect of life has a carbon footprint.
What is the Carbon Footprint?
A carbon footprint is defined as the emission of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual or an organization. This is expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent(CO2e).
An Email contains three major types of format, which is:
- A standard email, a spam email, An email with a long attachments.
Let’s understand this with some data and mathematics…➕✖📚.
The approximate amount of emission of greenhouse gases via regular mail is around 4 g CO2e(carbon dioxide equivalent), A spam email is around approximately 0.3 g CO2e . An email with attachments is around 50 g CO2e.
It is evaluated that the office employees in the IT sector receive 121 emails per day. I being a student receives around 5 to 8 emails per day.
60.5 spam emails x 0.3 g CO2e = 18.5 g CO2e
30.25 standard emails x 4 g CO2e = 121 g CO2e
30.25 emails with attachments x 50 g CO2e = 1512.5 g CO2e
This means that a days’ worth of emails received is equal to 1,652 g CO2e…
And that one years’ worth of emails received equals 603,393 g CO2e = 0.593863329 or 0.6 tones CO2e.
Disclaimer: The above-written data is taken from the book by Mike Berners-Lee: ‘How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything’.
This data heightens drastically during the work from home strategy due to Covid Scenario.
Here are some tips we can individually apply to make difference and save the world by decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases.
1. Routinely cleaning and maintaining mailing lists i.e. deleting all the emails which are not of interest by the users.
2. Unsubscribe from all the websites whose emails are not productive for the user.
3. Double assure the emails thoroughly before sending to ensure they contain all the necessary and correct information, to avoid the need to resend the emails.
4. Linking the mails to files or information online rather than adding an attachment.
QOB(Question of the blog):
What are the main causes of carbon footprint which must be managed and control by us?
We’re a team of two UX/UI designer including myself Aman Dinodiya and Vigneshwar, are working on a simple and yet effective project to overcome this above-mentioned problem up to some magnitude.
Well, that’s me Aman Dinodiya signing off, thanks for reading, and will see you in the next one :)
