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Story: Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 15 February 2005, 9:25 AM)
the 'away' in thrown away just means 'somehwere else' - this is like finding some old medicines you forgot to take, and then giving them to some random homeless person - bloody dangerous - what happens to these machines when they are in economies that for one reason or another do not even attempt to recycle - what about all the dangerous chemicals then? Yes, its a nice idea to send our worries and redundant hardware overseas, but when the hardware can be seriously poisonous is this really ethical ...?
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