Digital Cleanup Day

​Join us for a Digital Cleanup session — declutter your digital life & reduce your carbon footprint! We’re ClimateAction.tech (CAT), a community of tech workers who want to use our skills to take and accelerate climate action.

​According to Digital Cleanup Day, 90% of all data is never accessed 3 months after it is stored, which creates millions of tons of CO2 emissions and e-waste.

​During the event, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a digital cleanup action of your choice together with other participants. For ideas on what cleanup action to take, see the list below.

​Cleanup action ideas

• ​Cleaning up personal file, photo, email storage

• ​Cleaning up old work files & data

• ​Deactivating or deleting social media accounts

• ​Unsubscribing from digital subscriptions

• ​Unsubscribing from newsletters

• ​For more ideas, see: CAT Digital Cleanup Outline page

​If you’re a member of CAT, you can log in to Outline with your CAT Slack account and contribute your ideas.

​You can find additional Digital Cleanup resources on the Digital Cleanup Day website (not affiliated with CAT).

​The event is part of the CAT March Community Action challenge focused on digital cleanup. We also invite you to start and join discussions about digital cleanup in the CAT Slack. If you’re not a CAT member yet, you can join here.