Written by James Brentano, Vice President of Sales for Intraware

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), every month in the United States some 100,000 pounds of CDs become outdated, useless or unwanted. Every year, more than 5.5 million software packages go to landfills and incinerators.

CDs and DVDs are made from materials including polycarbonate plastic, petroleum-based lacquer and paints, aluminum and other metals. These materials release chemicals that contribute to environmental and health problems as well as global warming, both when they are produced and when they are destroyed.

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Written by Rick Adcock, a Senior Vice President of Environmental Markets for World Energy, which sells technology and consulting services for brokering electricity, natural gas, wholesale power, fuels and green credits.

No matter where you go or who you talk to nowadays, the conversation always seems to circle back to the environment, carbon footprints and greenhouse gases. The emergence of this topic feels sudden, and perhaps fleeting, as though it was spurred by a former Vice President’s Oscar run and will fade with the walk offstage. The journey, however, has been a long one, and the conversation is unlikely to change anytime soon. In order to see where we’re going next, it’s important to first look back over the past thirty years and figure out how we got here.

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