Comparison of paper and electronic devices and measures to reduce carbon emission

Abstract

"Carbon neutrality" goals have become a topic of growing concern in recent years, but the way students read is already causing a lot of carbon emissions to the environment. This article explores the two ways students use paper books and electronic products to read, and compares the annual carbon emissions of these two ways. The results show that traditional paper reading is more low-carbon and environmentally friendly, and has a wider audience, but the carbon emissions of both methods cannot be underestimated. This paper further explores relevant measures that can be taken to minimize the carbon emissions of reading to the environment, such as companies can find more environmentally friendly alternative materials, the government can appropriately increase recycling prices to promote the recycling of waste paper and electronic products, users can improve own reading habits to improve the utilization of paper and electronics, etc. This paper looks forward to finding better solutions to the massive carbon emissions caused by the use of paper books and electronic products, and hopes to mitigate the environmental hazards associated with the use of paper books and electronic products.