Razer Restorify lets you add a smol piece of carbon credit at the checkout
Get on the carbon offsetting bandwagon with every Razer purchase.
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It’s not easy going green when you can’t help but buy the latest and greatest, power hungry tech. Jumping on anRTX 4090graphics card purchase is going to really jostle myeco-guilt, but Razer has decided to help its customers along on their eco journey by letting them opt into carbon credits.
Razer’s Restorify is “a traceable carbon neutral checkout solution,” one that gives you the option to offset purchases on the Razer store with carbon credits. What that means is that, next time you buy a mouse, keyboard, or anything else you fancy on theRazer store, you could essentially pay Razer back for improving their environmental impact.
It’s uncommon for consumers to get this opportunity since the metric tons that carbon credits are generally divided into are much too vast (and expensive) for the average consumer to purchase, but with Restorify you can get involved and even track the offset of your purchase.
Companies such as Amazon, Google and AT&T are all investing in carbon credits.Lenovowill currently let you purchase traceable carbon credit at the checkout when you buy a laptop.
The fear, however, is that not all carbon credits are created equal, and some companies are getting caught up in what they call ‘false offsets.’ There’s also the concern over whether some carbon credits will ever be fulfilled, though Razer is at least doing something to quell the latter.
Phil Sturgeon, CEO and founder of theProtect Earthcharity, tells me that “Carbon offsetting is viewed as ‘covering for a bad thing you did’ which enables business as normal, but companies are increasingly being forced to buy carbon credits to cover their entire footprint whether its good or bad.” The issue there is that carbon credits can be sequestered/avoided, rather than fulfilled (retired).
Razer is selling credits that are “already retired from verified carbon registries.” Meaning it’s already been offset, so you know your money already went toward saving the planet. Once you’ve made a purchase, you cantrace your offsetsby typing in your order number after it’s been delivered, so you can see what’s been done to help the planet.
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It even tells you the exact amount of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) of carbon offsets you’re offsetting in pounds. The $0.06 to offset a Sneki cushion, for example, equates to 4.9lbs CO2e of carbon offsets.
Razer’s plan is to be ‘net zero,’ or carbon neutral, by 2030 and its many sustainability initiatives show a real push toward that goal. Razer has not only been helpingeco toilet rollstartups get on their feet, it’s been designing a way tostandardise eco-gaming product measurementwith 3DMark makers, UL.
Letting us purchase carbon credits that have already been fulfilled is just another way Razer is making a change, and with plenty of other companies such as Lenovo catching on, I guess I don’t have to feel as bad aboutleaving my PC on 24/7any more.
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she’s waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
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