FYI: Office Depot to recycle old PCs...

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Tue Jul 13 14:03:42 2004

And thusly Fred Cisin spake:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Bryan Pope wrote:
> > http://www.cnn.com/money/2004/07/13/news/fortune500/recycle_pc/index.htm
>
> ... and what do you suppose their definition is of "recycling"?
> (Pentium >1 GHz; anything else or slower is "too obsolete" to

Arrrgh!! A 1 Ghz machine is perfect for a MAME machine!! :-(

> be used, and will be crushed for scrap)

Maybe we should all start hanging out at our local Office Depots with a
truck...

>
> HP has a tradition of recycling (scrapping) toner and ink cartridges -
> significantly reduces the number of refillable units around.
>
>
> "one product per day"??? THAT does NOT sound like a serious
> effort to recycle. THAT is "free disposal".

It would be nice to know what they plan to do with these systems...

Cheers,

Bryan Pope
Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 14:03:42 BST

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