No excuse: recycle your ewaste!
02:02, 7 August 2006
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When computers, stereos, VCRs, iPods, walkmans, video games, software, and cell phones are put into land fills, they leak poisons and heavy metals into the ground, endangering our lives and the health of our planet. With 48.5 million computers discarded each year, the USA is a particularly poor recycler and global citizen, exploring its hazardous electronic waste to developing countries, often illegally, and with horrific impacts on human health and the environment in these countries. While I love and still use my "old" lime clamshell iBook, I know that, someday, it's going to be time to retire my machine. That means either selling it, or disposing of it in an environmentally-friendly manner. And once that sad day comes (sniff), I'll be following my own advice regarding recycling or disposing ewaste. Hope you will do the same -- and work with your company to do so as well (take the lead in getting a policy instituted -- it will look great on your CV!).
