This one simple cellphone trick could save enough CO2 to power Singapore for a year

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By RestartProjectNov 25, 2015, 3:30 pm286 ptsTrending
The average mobile made this year produced 35 kg of carbon emissions to manufacture, equal to 16 weeks of laundry. Sound small? Consider that 1.9 billion mobiles will be sold in 2015, approximately 60 per second. Their total carbon footprint in manufacture is equal to Austria’s annual carbon footprint. All of…

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