Thread: Electronic ads on the tube - good idea enviromentally?
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Old October 10th 07, 06:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Electronic ads on the tube - good idea enviromentally?
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Boltar wrote:

LUL seem to be falling in love with electronic ads , whether they be the
LCD monitor type such as all the way up the main escalators at Tottenham
court road or the projection type being tried out at Euston. An article
in the metrotravel section in Metro today wibbles on about how it'll
save lots of stuff from going to landfill but surely the extra
electricty used will more than outweigh any small advantages gained from
no paper waste?

Also, it's not as if display screens are waste-free - they do get thrown
away eventually, and there are all sorts of nasties in them. A friend of
mine works on this for the EPA in the US - it's called E-waste:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-waste

And it's a surprisingly big problem.

tom

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