How much pollution is generated manufacturing a DVD disc?

Answer 1

I doubt anybody has ever figured that out. You could weigh all the trash picked up from the factory in a year and divide that by the number of disks to get an average weight of trash per disk. You could look at the utility bill of the disk factory and then look at how much carbon dioxide and other pollution is emitted by the utility per kilowatt generated and do a similar calculation to get an amount of pollution per disk. But there are so many other things that could be called pollution I don't see any way to account for it all correctly. I bet you couldn't even get everyone to agree what is pollution and what is not pollution. Is the carbon dioxide exhaled by the workers while they are on the job pollution? Some people might say so, but I wouldn't go that far. Is the carbon dioxide emitted by the cars of the workers driving to work pollution? Yes it is, but is it really caused by manufacturing the disk? Not really, but sort of, because if the disks were not being made, the workers wouldn't drive to the plant and that pollution would be avoided. Really extreme environmentalists will say all such things are pollution to make the amount seem as large as possible if their goal is to stop the manufacture of the disks. They call it the full hidden cost of the technology.

Answer 2

small enough u couldn't measure it .