[pchelpers] Re: Computer recycling article

Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> You should get an environmental protection award. Incredible amounts of 
> material are mined and huge amounts of pollution are produced each time 
> a new computer is produced. Most of the old computers end up as 
> hazardous landfill and even recycling is completely insane as already 
> this old article explains, and things have gone from bad to worse to 
> insane since then:
> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DB1331F937A25757C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3
>
> Alex Randall is one man who believes that dismantling, recycling and 
> melting down old computers is misguided nonsense. He is president of the 
> East-West Education Development Foundation, a Boston-based charity, that 
> refurbishes second-hand computers and gives them to groups deemed worthy 
> in 130 countries.
>   
That was a fine article. I read the whole thing. Since I have been 
involved in recycling for years, this approach may end up being a far 
better way. Good food for thought.

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