Come one, come all! This week, we've been celebrating our first-ever What Hi-Fi? Sustainability Week, covering a variety of topics under the umbrella of sustainability in the world of AV and hi-fi.
You might be asking, why does this matter? Shouldn’t the quality of a product’s picture or audio quality be the only concern for home cinema and hi-fi buyers? Of course this is incredibly important, but it would be naïve to think that our buying habits don’t have an impact on the world around us.
The majority of manufacturers tend to encourage us to buy the latest model of their products instead of investing in a model that could last a lifetime. That means that more tech products are ending up in landfill each year, with the world health organisation estimating in 2022 that about 62 million tonnes of e-waste was produced globally.
Nothing ending up in landfill is good for the environment, but e-waste is particularly harmful because of the toxic chemicals that can leach into soil and water.
This week is not all about doom and gloom, though. In fact, it’s the opposite! We want to show you, and hold manufacturers to account for, how the industry plans to make its products more sustainable.
There has been oodles of advice on how to make your products last longer, as well as measuring how much electricity your TV set actually uses, but we're not done just yet.
We’ll be updating this page as the week goes on with all our coverage, so you can find it all in one place.
Monday:
Do hi-fi and home cinema fanatics care about sustainability? We want to know!
Tuesday:
What Sennheiser’s legendary HD650 headphones can teach the hi-fi industry about sustainability
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Buying second-hand CDs is my favourite way of discovering new music sustainably
What do you do with your old hi-fi equipment?
Friday:
‘Great sound shouldn’t cost us the planet’ – how Cambridge Audio wants to make hi-fi green
Here are the best wireless speakers right now
Check out the best TVs on offer
And these are the best streaming devices you can get
