Why refurbished, why now

Most of a device's carbon footprint is created before you ever switch it on.

Manufacturing — mining raw materials, fabricating chips, assembling the final product — is where the large majority of emissions happen, not the years you spend using it. Buying refurbished is the single most effective way to avoid that footprint, because it skips manufacturing almost entirely.

The three figures above are independently published statistics, cited to their source.