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Have you ever thought of sending and receiving e-mail will have an impact on environment. If no, this post is for you.

According to the studies, a standard email without attachment leaves the carbon footprint of 4g of CO2 as a result of electricity consumed by devices to send/receive and data centers to store them. An e-mail with attachment of large size or multiple attachments can have a carbon footprint of upto 50g of CO2.

Assume a person sends/receives 40 mails without attachments and 20 mails with attachments per day. He is responsible either directly or indirectly of carbon footprint of around 1.16kg of CO2 per day amounting to 423 kg of CO2 annually which is equivalent to the emission released by petrol car that has travelled 2,352.22 KMs on road in UK.(As per BBC reports, an average petrol car on the road in the UK produces 180g of CO2 per kilometer). 

Steps to minimize carbon footprint in terms of mail:

• Unsubscribe from the unwanted mails.
• Check and delete unwanted mails in the inbox regularly.
• Empty the recycle bin and spam folder daily.
• Send acknowledgement or thank you mails only if necessary.
• Reviewing the requirement of automated mail notifications to all the team members even if it is relevant to only one of the team members and taking measures to disable such automatic mails in your companies.