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By Jonathan Skillings
First, there was the cardboard box in
the kitchenette for old cans and bottles. Then,
the plastic bin under everyone's desk for old
print jobs and newspapers.
Will the next trend in office recycling be a
Dumpster for old computers?
A growing movement to recycle PCs and other
electronics has governments from King County,
Wash., to the European Parliament examining
ways to keep those machines from ending up in
landfills and posing pollution threats.
Computer makers worry that government solutions
focused on redesign, recycling and disposal will
raise the expense of doing business--and the price
tags of their products--at a time when they can ill
afford such costly changes.
Regardless of how it gets done, some form of
wide-scale recycling appears inevitable. The
computer industry acknowledges that its products
are becoming obsolete faster than it is putting
new machines on the market--leading businessess and consumers to
store tons of aging equipment until agreement
can be reached on a way to dispose of them without
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