Mark Holtz
03-04-07, 03:16 PM
From Yahoo News:
Tech firms go green as e-waste mountsThis is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components. FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_hi_te/recycling_computers;_ylt=Al2pVFNVo_sip0eehCb.o44jt BAF)
Unless, of course, you are a Linux geek, in which case that 13 year old 386 is still chugging along serving as your networks DNS servers.
Tech firms go green as e-waste mountsThis is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components. FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_hi_te/recycling_computers;_ylt=Al2pVFNVo_sip0eehCb.o44jt BAF)
Unless, of course, you are a Linux geek, in which case that 13 year old 386 is still chugging along serving as your networks DNS servers.