FACTORY emissions and disappearing forests have been identified as major
forces in climate change. Now researchers have discovered a new
factor—Harry Potter.
According to a paper published this October in IEEE Spectrum
magazine entitled “Harry Potter and the health of the environment”, more than a
quarter of a million copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were
delivered by Amazon.com in the US last year, setting a record for online
orders.
The 400 grams of packaging used to encase each of those books went straight
to landfill. And that, say authors Scott Matthews, Chris Hendrickson and Lester…
