INTERNET POLLUTION

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 CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION

 MEANING OF INTERNET

 MEANING OF INTERNET POLLUTION

 DEFFINITION OF INTERNET

 DEFFINITION OF INTERNET POLLUTION

 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE INTERNET

 WHAT CAUSES IT’S ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

 WHAT IS CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THE INTERNET

 HOW DOES THE TECHNOLOGY CREAT POLLUTION

a. Digital pollution
b. Email pollution
c. Carbon emission

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 INTERNET POLLUTION

 INTRODUCTION

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The first workable prototype of the internet came in the late 1960s
with the creation of ARPANET, or the advanced research projects agency
network ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on 1-1-1983, and from there
researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the
modern internet.

The internet uses data processing servers, data centers, which

consume a lot of energy …This energy causes large releases of CO2. Digital
pollution comes mainly from streaming videos, ADSL routers, bit coins or
emails.

 INTERNET MEANING

In general the full form of INTERNET is International network, Internet

refers to global network that connects the computers across the globe, the
name international network is appropriate which is the interconnected
network of all the web servers world wide, in short its network of network .

 MEANING OF INTERNET POLLUTION

Internet pollution, or the impact of internet on ecology is simply pollution
caused by the operation of the internet. Fo many, the internet is
synonymous with dematerialization. Yet, far from being dematerialized, the
internet is based on a physical infrastructure. Indeed, a whole network of
cables, data centers and servers underpin the functioning of the internet.

 DEFINITION OF INTERNET

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The internet is a network system of the interconnected computer

systems globally, that is available to everyone. These interconnected
computer systems work by sending data by way of a particular form of
packet switching which is known as the IP or the INTERNET protocol.

 DEFINITION OF INTERNET POLLUTION

E-Pollution is environment damage that comes from the constant

heat and cooling down facilities that are referred to data centers are where
online information is collected processed, stored and exchanged
supercomputers in these facilities are constantly running and tend to get
very hot. This can result in a meltdown of nor only the computers but also
of the internet.

 How Polluting is the Internet

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Why is the internet polluting?

Today, we can say that the internet has revolutionized our era. It gave us
instantaneous information. But this upheaval has limits: it pollutes a lot.
Even if it is virtual in appearance, it uses extremely polluting, servers. If the
internet was a country, would the 6th most polluting in the world.
A real sources of pollution the internet uses data processing servers, data
centers, which consumes lot of energy. A data centre consumes on average
as much as 30000 European inhabitants a day. It uses energy to power

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servers, cool them down and ensure continuous operation in the event of
failure this energy causes large releases of CO2.
Digital pollution comes mainly from streaming videos ADSL routers, bit
coins or emails.
Let’s take the example of an email that you send. Your email goes through
copper cables to go to internet servers near you. Then, it travels thousand
of kilometers to reach the United States. There, it is treated by your host
mail like Gmail. Finally, it was be returned to arrive in the recipient’s mail
box.
Thus, an email travels an average of 15,000 km between sending and
destination.
There’s a big difference between sending a million emails and sending a
million letters. Choices like buying an e-book instead of a print book,
watching a film online rather than DVD, or organizing a work meeting on
skype than flying from Barcelona to London to meet face-to-face, all reduce
environmental impact. There is no doubt that the internet makes many
everyday transactions more efficient, but the fact that its footprint is lower
than that of traditional activities does not mean it is totally innocuous. First,
the inconvenient news: the internet consumes huge amounts of electricity,
although it is difficult to measure exactly how much. The following
questions and answers are intended to clear up some of the doubts around
this issue.
The fact that the internet footprint is lower than that of traditional
activities does not mean it is totally innocuous.

When we talk about pollution and the internet what we measuring

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Jon Koomey, an expert in the environmental effects of
information technology, says that the key elements we should measure are
what he calls “the big three”:
 End-user equipment (computers, tablets, laptops, routers)
 Data centers (that store and host web pages)
 Access networks (the wiring and antennas that carry data.

 THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE INTERNET

The first thing that emerges after surveying various sources is that
nobody knows for sure. In 2010, The Guardian came with the figure of 300
million tones of CO2 per year, “as much as all the coal, oil and gas burned in
turkey or Poland in one year.” A controversial article entitled “power,
pollution and the internet” in the New York Times put the figure at 30
billon watts of electricity in 2011, “roughly equivalent to the output of 30
nuclear power plants.” And according to Gartner consultants, the internet

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was responsible for 2% of global emissions in 2007, outstripping the
carbon footprint of the aviation industry a more recent study by the
Melbourne based research centre CEET in 2013 estimated that the
telecommunication industry as a whole emits 830 millions tones of carbon
dioxide a year, and that the energy demands of the internet could double by
2020

The CEET reports that the internet now accounts for 1.5% to
2% of the world’s energy consumption, which means that if the internet
were a country it would rank as fifth largest for energy consumption. Jon
Koomyey estimates that the direct electricity use of all the elements that
make up the internet is probably around 10% of total electricity
consumption, but he emphasizes that it’s very difficult to calculate exact
figures “you can use a computer to play videogames or write a text and not
be online, and this energy use is often counted as part of the internet even
though it isn’t actually the case.”

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Internet pollution or the impact of internet on ecology is simply
pollution caused by the operation of the internet.
Most of the pollution arises from all of the cooling systems set in place
to make sure the computers do not overheat. It has been reported that data
centers can ‘consume up to 100 times more energy than a standard office
building.’ (Cho, change, Jung, & yon, 2017) therefore it is very impotent to
keep an eye on the energy that these centers are consuming and to keep it
as low as possible.

If the internet is virtual, what causes its environmental

impact?
Unlike a car that emits fuel through its exhaust pipe, it is difficult to
visualize the environmental impact of the net. Its carbon footprint is mainly
a result of the power required to keep its infrastructure running. Mobile
phone antennas, the device we use to access the internet, and data centers
all require enormous amounts of electricity. This electricity can come from
renewable sources, but it often does not. For example, in its report “How
Clean is Your Cloud?” Greenpeace found that 70% per cent of the 400,000
Mobile phone antennas in India don’t have access to reliable electricity
sources, and diesel-powered generators are use
d to make up for the inadequate power supply. The big data centers in
western countries also rely on back up diesel generators that kick into
action in the event of power cuts.

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 WHAT IS THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF INTERNET?

The carbon footprint of the internet. Around 300 million tones of CO2 per
year equivalent to every person in the UK flying to America and back twice

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over. All carbon Footprint are hard or impossible to pin down accurately,
but the internet is a particularly complex case. This isn’t just due to the fact
that the “net” consists of millions or even billions of machines owned by
countless people and companies. There’s also another problem: even if we
knew exactly how much energy all these devices consumed (which we
don’t), we still wouldn’t know how much of that energy was spent on offline
jobs (such as creating documents in Microsoft office) and how much of
spent on online jobs (such as emailing those documents to a friends or
colleague).
It possible, nonetheless, to take a rough stab at working out the internet’s
carbon footprint. A good place to start is the world’s data centers-building
packed top to bottom with servers full of the web pages, databases, online
applications and downloadable files that make the modern online
experience possible. Data centers use lots of electricity, both for powering
the machines they contain and –all importantly – for the air conditioning
needed to keep the servers from overheating.
According to a report by Gartner, data centers already account for around a
quarter of the energy consumed (and the carbon emitted) by the
information and communication technology ( ICT) sector as a whole. In
other words, around half a percent of global CO2 emissions.
By Gartner’s figures, the world PCs and monitors are even more power
hungry, accounting for around 40% of the total ICT energy demand and
0.8% of global CO2 emissions. If we decided (somewhat arbitrarily) that
half of the emission from all these laptop and desktop machines were down
to internet- based activity, and then add on the emissions from the data
centers that make all this online activity possible, then the internet would
clock in at around 1% of all the CO2 emission released from burning fossil
fuels. Put another way, the interest releases around 300m tones of CO2 –as

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much as all the coal , oil and gas burned in turkey or Poland in one year , or
more than half of those burned in the UK.
These figures tie in fairly well a study by the UK’s market transformation
Program which concluded that 343.5 million tones of CO2 was down to
consumer and commercial ICT in 2005 –equivalent to around 1.2% of
current fossil –fuels CO2 emissions. ICT’s footprint is due to climb by 60%
by 2030, the same report suggests if that was to happen, and global
emissions had already fallen by then, as climate changes experts suggest
they must, then the internet’s share of total carbon output would climb
significantly higher still.
All this depends on what happens between now and then, of course.
Companies have already been exploring technologies that can take the heat
from the data centers and use them to warm nearby buildings, thereby
reducing internal air-conditioning requirements and local demand for
heating fuels. And Iceland which has an abundance of renewable, low-
carbon energy is angling to be the world’s data-center capital.
In the meantime, it’s interesting to note that 1% is about the same
proportion as printing and paper-based publishing represents in the UK.
The comparison isn’t entirely valid, for a whole host of reasons, but the fact
remains that despite ecological claims for virtual economy, the digital era
may be no less energy-hungry than the paper-based world of 20 years ego.
Part of the reason is the so called rebound effect- the phenomenon that
when something (in this case the storing and interrogation of data)
becomes cheaper and more energy – efficient, we often end up simply
doing more of it, with the result that there is no net reduction, or even a
rise, in cost or impact. On the other hand, the internet is likely to be crucial
to any move to a low- carbon would without its capacity to carry the huge
flows of energy data, there could be no “smart grid” for example, and

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without online video conferencing it would be much harder to reduce the
number of business flights in coming years. Ultimately, then, it’s not just
technological developments that will affect the growing carbon footprint of
the internet. Just as important is how choose to use it.

Internet users in India to reach 627 million in 2019: Report

Internet usage in the country has exceeded half a billion people for first time,
pegged at 566 million, driven by rural internet growth and usages.

It is now estimated that there are 251 million internet users in rural India, and
this is expected to reach 290 million by the end of 2019, the report said.

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India's internet users expected to register double digit growth to reach 627

million in 2019, driven by rapid internet growth in rural areas, market
research agency Kantar IMRB Wednesday said. Internet usage in the
country has exceeded half a billion people for first time, pegged at 566
million, driven by rural internet growth and usage.
In its ICUBE 2018 report that tracks digital adoption and usage trends in
India, it noted that the number of internet users in India has registered an
annual growth of 18 percent and is estimated at 566 million as of December
2018, a 40 percent overall internet penetration, it observed.
That the number of internet users will reach It projected a double digit
growth for 2019 and estimates 627 million by the end of the year.
Of the total user base, 87 percent or 493 million Indians are defined as
regular users, having accessed internet in last 30 days. Nearly 293 million
active internet users reside in urban India, while there are 200 million
active users in rural India, it said. The report found that 97 percent of users
use mobile phone as one of the devices to access internet. While internet
users grew by 7% in urban India, registering a 35% growth in internet
users over the past year. it is now estimated that there are 251 million
internet users in rural India, and this is expected to reach 290 million by
the end of 2019, the report said.
"Increased availability of bandwidth, cheap data plans and increased
awareness driven by government programs seem to have rapidly bridged
the digital gap between urban and rural India. Consequently, the
penetration in rural India has increased from 9 per cent in 2015 to 25
percent in 2018," it added.

How does the technology create pollution?

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“manufacturing, use and disposal of our gadgets create increased demand
for energy, produce toxic waste and contribute to air pollution,” “The
amount of data getting transferred and stored around the world through
the internet is groveling at an exponential rate,” Clifford told weather.

Sending an email, using search engines, storing data pollute: the web
generates today 2% of the CO2 emissions of the planet. And this is just the
beginning of this new form of pollution. Indeed, within four years, digital
pollution will represent 3 to 4% of carbon emission.

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Digital pollution:
Email and carbon emissions.
Internet pollutes. That’s a fact. But how can we draw this conclusion. How
one web research can emits 7g of CO2? How an email with an attachment
car emits 10g of CO2?
We decided to focus on the emails pollution, or more precisely, the
pollution, or more precisely, the pollution caused by the storage of emails
and its impact on the environment.
When sending an email, carbon is emitted. Once it get to the receive, this
email will probably be part of the 90% of emails that stay in the receives
inbox without having been opened. But this storage is also polluting some
CO2, and more precisely 10g per year.

Data Centers.
A data is a place in which you’ll find huge armoires containing servers
where are organized, treated, stocked and maintained data. There’s also
cooing system and energy supply system.
Data center are working without interruption. They consume a lot of power
and electricity due to the devices concentration, energy, power full internet
connection, generators, venting and cooling anticipated.
It must be taken in to account that when you send an email, send photos,
publish articles the data is always stored in many copies on data centers.
It’s stored in different servers. So that if one server is down your data will
not disappear. This is a safety move 2% of world wide CO2 emissions come
from data centers. This is more than the civil aviation. For example, the

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UK’S largest data center is the KAO data campus which consists of four data
centers which combine to a total of 150000 sq ft of server space. Indeed, if
internet was a country, it will be the 3rd biggest energy consumer in the
world.

Conclusion

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Now a day because of internet the climate getting polluted. The above are
the reason for internet pollution. Through the internet we use many more
technological social medias such as email, carbon emissions, impact of
internet, foot print of internet etc…. these all are effected on human being
also on environment.
The health of the public, especially those who are the most vulnerable, such
as children, the elderly and the sick, is at risk from air pollution, but it is
difficult to say how large the risk is. It is possible that the problem has been
over-stressed in relation to other challenges in the field of public heal th.

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