Comments on: Computers fastest-growing waste http://prussia.net/green_computing/computer_waste_growing/ Managing Information for Small Business Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Prussia.Net » Blog Archive » Recycle your dead computers next weekend http://prussia.net/green_computing/computer_waste_growing/comment-page-1/#comment-9165 Prussia.Net » Blog Archive » Recycle your dead computers next weekend Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:38:57 +0000 http://prussia.net/observations/computer_waste_growing/#comment-9165 [...] While this isn’t the only way to get rid of computers, and it follows scathing criticism of Apple’s environmental record, it’s certainly going to help get rid of Australia’s mountain of computer waste. [...] [...] While this isn’t the only way to get rid of computers, and it follows scathing criticism of Apple’s environmental record, it’s certainly going to help get rid of Australia’s mountain of computer waste. [...]

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://prussia.net/green_computing/computer_waste_growing/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Stilgherrian Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:12:44 +0000 http://prussia.net/observations/computer_waste_growing/#comment-7 According to the _New York Times_ yesterday, Americans threw out 2.5 million tons of “e-waste” last year, only 10% of which was recycled. “Every old computer monitor contains about four pounds of lead, and other parts are filled with heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium and chromium,“ the article says. “They have toxins that hover in the air after incineration or leach into the water supply when buried in landfills.” Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say there’s 60 million old computers in landfill around the US. Six US states have passed laws which require e-waste to be recycled, and more are expected to follow in 2007. According to the New York Times yesterday, Americans threw out 2.5 million tons of “e-waste” last year, only 10% of which was recycled.

“Every old computer monitor contains about four pounds of lead, and other parts are filled with heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium and chromium,“ the article says. “They have toxins that hover in the air after incineration or leach into the water supply when buried in landfills.”

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say there’s 60 million old computers in landfill around the US.

Six US states have passed laws which require e-waste to be recycled, and more are expected to follow in 2007.

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