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Apple Computer will now accept old computers--Macs or PCs--for recycling from anyone who purchases a new Mac from one of the company's retail stores or via its Web site.
The company previously maintained a recycling drop-off in its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, where people could leave their old computer equipment.
Computer recycling has become a hot topic within the tech industry as the amount of electronic waste continues to grow and damage the environment.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been criticized at shareholder meetings for the company's environmental record.
As part of the new program, which began Wednesday, Mac purchasers will receive an e-mail with instructions and a label for free shipping and recycling. The old computers will be recycled within the United States, Apple said, and no hazardous materials will be shipped overseas.
The company already has an iPod recycling program that offers a 10 percent discount on the purchase of a new iPod digital audio player.
Dell offers a similar free-recycling option for PC purchasers, as well as a general recycling program that charges $10 to $20 per machine, depending on weight. Hewlett-Packard has a list of electronic equipment that can be turned in for recycling in the U.S., often in exchange for a discount on the purchase of a new HP product.
Thats good news as ,in parts of india people break computers down for recylcing by hand and becuase pcb boards and components have small amounts of mercury in them,they start suffering from ill health.
More than 50 percent of our recycled computers are shipped overseas, where their toxic components are polluting poor communities. Meanwhile, U.S. laws are a mess, and industry and Congress are resisting efforts to stem "the effluent of the affluent."
Top: Woman in Guiyu, China, about to smash a cathode ray tube from a computer monitor in order to remove the copper-laden yoke at the end of the funnel. The glass is laden with lead but the biggest hazard from this is the inhalation of the highly toxic phosphor dust coating inside.
Bottom: Open burning of plastic-encased metal printer and motor parts in Guiyu, China.
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A parade of trucks piled with worn-out computers and electronic equipment pulls away from container ships docked at the port of Taizhou in the Zhejiang Province of southeastern China. A short distance inland, the trucks dump their loads in what looks like an enormous parking lot. Pools of dark oily liquid seep from under the mounds of junked machinery. The equipment comes mostly from the United States, Europe and Japan.
There definatly should be a law, lets face it, Voluntarily handing in your Mobile Phones and old computers doesn't work as well.
Now, an impending EU directive could mean these discarded machines, and many others, enjoy a more useful life. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Weee) Directive makes electronics firms responsible for what happens to the gadgets and devices they produce once people have done with them.
The Weee directive forces hi-tech firms to find greener ways of making electronic goods and obliges them to help recycle what they make once they are discarded.
The Weee directive comes into force in the UK in early 2008.
Although it could just push up costs, with manufacturers adding recycling costs on to the retail price.
There definatly should be a law, lets face it, Voluntarily handing in your Mobile Phones and old computers doesn't work as well.
Now, an impending EU directive could mean these discarded machines, and many others, enjoy a more useful life. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Weee) Directive makes electronics firms responsible for what happens to the gadgets and devices they produce once people have done with them.
The Weee directive forces hi-tech firms to find greener ways of making electronic goods and obliges them to help recycle what they make once they are discarded.
The Weee directive comes into force in the UK in early 2008.
Although it could just push up costs, with manufacturers adding recycling costs on to the retail price.
That's probably because they gave the Consumer responsibility to recycle the computer, this EU directive gives the maunfacurer the responsibilty, and they will have to pay for it, they have to get the money from somewhere
That's probably because they gave the Consumer responsibility to recycle the computer, this EU directive gives the maunfacurer the responsibilty, and they will have to pay for it, they have to get the money from somewhere
Wrong, the german law forces the manufacturer to take it back for free.
And still, as I said, the prices maintained stable.
A lot of computers now are being sold as referbished. they take a pc that is still useable clean it up reinstall the os maybe add some new componants and walla a pratically new pc out of a old one. I am for recycling and im glad that companies such as dell and HP are doing there part. I will support the efforts just as long as we are not harming the environment.
Well I've never thrown a computer away (although I think my dad may have thrown the one we had when I was a baby out). My Win95 was donated, my Win98 is upstairs in the study doing nothing (which is similar to what it would do if I turned it on), my XP is here in from of me, my sister's XP is in front of her, my dad's 98 laptop is in a similar state to the 98 Desktop, my dad's XP laptop is being used and my mum's XP laptop is also being used.
The Typewriter's ribon ran out; however that's in the Garage.
We threw our Amstrad Locoprcessor out when the Buy-Sell-Trade wouldn't take it for a £1.
Ok, In the house we have XP Laptop, Windows 98 Computer, XP Computer, Power Mac G4 panther, for work, there's the G5 High-Spec Photoshop Computer (Quad Core/Lacie Screen and all the rest)
My Computers:
G4 OSX Tiger, 4GB RAM, Windows Vista P4HT 3.2 Computer, Windows XP/Linux 4GB "Cool" Computer with Intel Dual Core 3.2 both modded/built myself
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