The Carphone Warehouse is pioneering an exclusive ‘green’ mobile phone charger. Now before you start thinking, ‘ooh, that will go lovely with my jungle camo wallpaper’, think again because is all about the environment rather than providing a colourful alternative to the standard black or grey option.
The key innovation is that the charger stops sucking power from an outlet as soon as your device is fully charged as opposed to continuing to drain the socket for as long as it is connected.
Apparently a staggering 95% of energy used by all mobile phone chargers is wasted and unplugging chargers could save consumers £60 million a year and cut CO2 emissions by 250,000 tonnes (which is enough energy to heat 54,000 homes for a whole year). Well that’s just justified it for us anyway and only because we are staunch environmentalists mind, not because we want to save on our electricity bills.
(Via Carphone Warehouse)
