The Grauniad have published this article that tries to quantify the carbon footprint of a mobile phone use.
Fairly interesting stuff on one level - I like the fact it breaks down the various stages of a mobile phones manufacture.
However, like all calculations in this impossibly complex field it could never take into account every circumstance and some of the withering responses from readers point out its various shortfalls.
One thing close to our hearts here is mobile phone reuse. The article points out that nearly 2.7 billion phones are in use worldwide (nearly 50% of humans use one apparently), however what could never be easily confirmed is how many of these phones are 2nd, 3rd or 4th hand.
This in our humble opinion must account for a sizeable proportion out there. Our industry frequently bandies about the figure that an estimated 90 million phones are lying redundant in draws across the UK alone!
What cannot be denied is that mobile communication and increasingly internet access from handheld devices is ubiquitous in our society and clearly all over the planet and this has to have an impact on our world
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