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HALF a million computers used by civil servants will be switched off at night to help make the UK government the first in the world to have carbon neutral PCs.
Ministers have ordered the power-saving strategy, as well as pledged to recycle IT equipment rather than binning it, to save 117,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year - the equivalent of taking 40,000 cars off the road. The proposals to make technology in Whitehall carbon neutral by 2012 includes computers that switch themselves off if they are inactive for too long.See the full content of this document
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Civil Service Turns Off Pcs to Cut Carbon Emissions
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