Relevant to both sustainability and safety and health concerns is our continuuing hoarding and sub optimum use of recycleable and useable materials...PCs in this case.
http://onsitesafe.blogspot.com/2008/01/nation-of-hoarders-30-million-pcs-rot.html#links
The cited article is an important and scary reminder of how much resources we hoard and waste when pc materials are so recyclable and if not handled properly unsafe as well as polluting to our encvironment(let alone the waste of usability for people who need access to serviceable pc equipment).
some relevant links;
http://www.employment.greenpc.com.au/
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Australia-to-dump-e-waste-on-developing-nations-/0,130061702,339282651,00.htm
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