--- title: Digital Cleanup Protects your Business and our Planet description: Digital Cleanup is an easy way to have measurable social and climate impact. Check out this blog for practical steps on how to get started. image: https://blog.cybercoach.com/hubfs/digital_clean_up_cybersocialresponsibility.png --- [![CyberCoach Full Logo with Bot Icon](https://blog.cybercoach.com/hubfs/CyberCoach_Full_Logo_Black-2.svg)](https://www.cybercoach.com?hsLang=en) - PRODUCT ## CyberCoach at a glance An industry-changing platform built on peer-reviewed research: phishing, secure coding, and AI skills training, delivered directly in Teams, Slack, or the browser. ### [The Science Behind CyberCoach Why traditional phishing simulations don't work, according to peer-reviewed research from ETH Zurich.](https://www.cybercoach.com/science-behind-cybercoach?hsLang=en) ### [Is Phishing Simulation Legal Under GDPR? 9 steps GDPR requires before you phish your employees — and a new simulation approach that doesn't need any of them.](https://www.cybercoach.com/legal-basis-phishing-simulation?hsLang=en) ### [Pricing Flexible plans, also monthly. ](https://www.cybercoach.com/pricing?hsLang=en) ### [Blog Latest insights into security awareness and what's new with CyberCoach.](https://blog.cybercoach.com) ### [Customer Stories Read more about how CyberCoach has helped organizations across different industries modernize their approach to security and AI training. ](https://www.cybercoach.com/customer-stories?hsLang=en) ### [OT Security Training Targeted training for employees working with OT technology.](https://www.cybercoach.com/ot-security-training?hsLang=en) - [AI TRAINING](https://www.cybercoach.com/ai-security-training?hsLang=en) ## [AI Training The most comprehensive role-based AI security and productivity training — built to help employees use AI effectively and safely, and keep your organization compliant with the EU AI Act.](https://www.cybercoach.com/ai-security-training?hsLang=en) ### [AI Security Training Why choose CyberCoach for your AI security training needs?](https://www.cybercoach.com/ai-security-training?hsLang=en) ### [EU AI Act Training Requirements: What You Actually Have To Do AI literacy training has been mandatory since February 2025.  ](https://www.cybercoach.com/eu-ai-act-training-requirements?hsLang=en) - [FOR DEVELOPERS](https://www.cybercoach.com/secure-development-training-for-developers?hsLang=en) ## [For Developers Go beyond OWASP Top10 and offer hands-on interactive training for technical roles in secure coding and efficient use of AI. ](https://www.cybercoach.com/secure-development-training-for-developers?hsLang=en) ### [Secure Coding Skills Meet ISO/IEC 27001 or SOC 2 requirements for secure development practices with no-nonsense training for your developers and other technical roles, directly in Microsoft Teams or Slack chat. ](https://www.cybercoach.com/secure-development-training-for-developers?hsLang=en) - [COMPANY](https://www.cybercoach.com/about-us?hsLang=en) ## [About us We're growing into the most diverse training platform company on the planet.](https://www.cybercoach.com/about-us?hsLang=en) ### [About Us Get to know our international team.](https://www.cybercoach.com/about-us?hsLang=en) ### [Contact Us Get in touch.](https://www.cybercoach.com/contact-us?hsLang=en) ### [Careers We are hiring.](https://www.cybercoach.com/careers?hsLang=en) ### [Partner with us Learn more about our partner program.](https://www.cybercoach.com/partnerships?hsLang=en) [FREE TRIAL](https://www.cybercoach.com/free-trial?hsLang=en) [GET A DEMO](https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/maria-bique/cybercoach-demo?uuid=88959d26-2ff7-4dd0-8ebd-dd43eb31443e) Awareness # Digital Cleanup Protects your Business and our Planet Digital Cleanup is an easy way to have measurable social and climate impact. 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[Maria Bique](https://blog.cybercoach.com/author/maria-bique) Mar 18, 2023 [Awareness](https://blog.cybercoach.com/tag/awareness) [Cyber Social Responsibility](https://blog.cybercoach.com/tag/cyber-social-responsibility) [Digital Rights](https://blog.cybercoach.com/tag/digital-rights) [Security Culture](https://blog.cybercoach.com/tag/security-culture) ### Share this article [mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://blog.cybercoach.com/digital-cleanup&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://blog.cybercoach.com/digital-cleanup&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://blog.cybercoach.com/digital-cleanup&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://blog.cybercoach.com/digital-cleanup&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email) ### Subscribe ### Subscribe ![](https://blog.cybercoach.com/hubfs/digital_clean_up_cybersocialresponsibility.png) ![Make Digital Cleanup part of your ESG Program](https://blog.cybercoach.com/hs-fs/hubfs/digital_clean_up_cybersocialresponsibility.png?width=1910&height=955&name=digital_clean_up_cybersocialresponsibility.png) We celebrate Digital Cleanup Day once a year, but responsible organizations do it every day. Digital waste threatens both our safety and our environment. Studies estimate the internet will consume 20 percent of the world’s total energy by 2030.\* Just because there are bigger threats to our planet, does not mean we should not act on this one. Digital cleanup is not only an easy and free way to take climate action, it actually saves you money and benefits your business. ##### Getting rid of your digital waste reduces risks and saves money Many ESG activities require investment, digital cleanup is not one of them. Digital cleanup is a rare example of climate action that every organization can easily get started with, and immediately leverage the long list of benefits: 1. Digital cleanup saves money: storing digital waste in the cloud adds up $$$, especially actively securing it.  2. Digital cleanup increases online privacy and safety. Just because you don't need the data does not mean someone else could not use it for harm. By eliminating digital waste, responsible organizations can protect their employees' and customers' data from being exploited.  3. Digital cleanup increases employee security awareness. It's an opportunity to talk about security risks related to our digital footprints, and support employees in reducing them. 4. Digital cleanup reduces the security risks related to forgotten backups and unused systems. If you are not using something, you are unlikely to be patching it. Unpatched systems are easy prey for attackers. 5. Digital cleanup reduces your organization's environmental load. 6. Digital cleanup helps organize clear digital workspaces, which increase efficiency and decrease frustration. 7. Digital Cleanup Day provides an opportunity for fantastic team-building activities with both social and environmental impact.  8. Digital Cleanup Day is great for your brand. Invite other organizations to join you in digital cleanups to help spread awareness of the issue, and show your employees and customers that you care about the problem of digital pollution. ##### How can my organization do Digital Cleanup? Chances are, you are doing many of these things already. The next step is making these things part of your corporate culture, and coming up with quantitative and qualitative measures of your progress that you can report on.   | **What?** | **Get Started** | **Go Beyond** | | --- | --- | --- | | Apps and Systems | Step 1: Make a list of apps and systems your organization uses. Step 2: Assign someone responsible for each system.  Step 3: Once every 3-6 months, verify each app is still in use and go over all accounts that have access to it. Delete unused user accounts. | Select apps and systems by climate neutral or positive partners.  | | Files | Organize regular Cleanup Days where employees can delete files that are no longer needed.  Record which files are business critical and which records must be kept by law. Assign storage times and procedures for adhering to them. | Automate deletion of files that no longer need to be stored. | | Video meetings | Long video meetings consume a lot of computing power. Save our planet with less frequent and more effective virtual meetings. | Keep internal meetings to 25 minutes or 45 minutes, with a clear agenda and purpose. Use video purposefully.  | | Email | Encourage everyone to do these regularly: 1. Unsubscribe from all unnecessary newsletters.  2. Turn off all unnecessary email notifications. 3. Delete unnecessary emails. | Eliminate useless emails from your work culture. Drop the "FYIs" and excessive CCs and BCCs. Utilize digital and co-working spaces effectively to minimize email. Organize email inboxes effectively to reduce time and resources needed to search through them.  | | Cookies and cache | Encourage employees to regularly delete cookies and clear cache on browsers: On Android phones, go to Settings > Tap the Storage heading > Find the application you want to clear > Clear cache On iPhones, go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data > Clear History and Data | Think about your own apps and the cookies they collect: don't collect data that is not needed, and delete data regularly.  | | Employee Digital Footprints | Educate employees on their digital footprints and support them in actively managing them.  | Provide employees with tools and support for actively managing not just their own footprints, but their friends' and family members' digital footprints, too. Think of how you can reward employees who raise awareness about digital footprints and help others reduce theirs.  | ##### Share your #cybersocialresponsibility progress and challenge others Digital Cleanup is an easy and impactful way to make Cyber Social Responsibility part of your ESG efforts and have measurable social and climate impact. Share your story on social media with the hashtag #cybersocialresponsibility so that we, and others passionate about digital ESG, can amplify it. Don't be shy about publishing your metrics and progress. Let your customers and stakeholders know about what you do in order to encourage them and help them choose sustainable service providers. Let's protect our planet together 🌎 \*Andrae, Anders. (2020). Hypotheses for Primary Energy Use, Electricity Use and CΟ2 Emissions of Global Computing and Its Shares of the Total Between 2020 and 2030. 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