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  2. Green computing - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows has included limited PC power management features since Windows 95. [45] These initially provided for stand-by (suspend-to-RAM) and a monitor low power state. Further iterations of Windows added hibernate (suspend-to-disk) and support for the ACPI standard. Windows 2000 was the first NT-based operating system to include power ...

  3. Sustainable flooring - Wikipedia

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    [10] Wood is a unique and renewable material. Trees absorb carbon during their growing cycle, and this carbon remains stored in products like wood flooring during its service life, thus keeping it out of the atmosphere. At the end of its service life, wood can be reused (in which case the carbon continues to be stored in the wood) or used for fuel.

  4. Sustainable products - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable products are products either sustainably sourced, manufactured or processed and provide environmental, social, and economic benefits while protecting public health and the environment throughout their whole life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials to the final disposal.

  5. Digital distribution - Wikipedia

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    Digital distribution is also more eco-friendly than physical. Optical discs are made of polycarbonate plastic and aluminum . The creation of 30 of them requires the use of 300 cubic feet of natural gas , two cups of oil and 24 gallons of water.

  6. Polyvinyl acetate - Wikipedia

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    [10] As the coating layer on Gouda cheese. [11] The stiff homopolymer PVAc, but mostly the softer copolymer, a combination of vinyl acetate and ethylene, vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE), is also used in paper coatings, paint and other industrial coatings, as a binder in nonwovens in glass fibers, sanitary napkins, filter paper and in textile ...

  7. Vinyl siding - Wikipedia

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    Vinyl siding is plastic exterior siding for houses and small apartment buildings, used for decoration and weatherproofing, imitating wood clapboard, batten board and batten or shakes, and used instead of other materials such as aluminum or fiber cement siding.

  8. Environmentally friendly - Wikipedia

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    Environment friendly processes, or environmental-friendly processes (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green), are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that claim reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment. [1]

  9. Vinyl - Wikipedia

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    Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a particular vinyl polymer; Vinyl cation, a type of carbocation; Vinyl group, a broad class of organic molecules in chemistry; Vinyl polymer, a group of polymers derived from vinyl monomers