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Story: Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 18 February 2005, 1:04 AM)
WEEE directive is meant to protect the environment from dumping and landfilling, so how shifting the problem to African countries that do not have the same recycling resources as UK presents a solution ?
Also shouldnt it be a priority of some media organisaitons and their Corporate Social Responsibility to support organisations that send food, water and install electricity generators in poor African villages first, before promoting someone that appears to sell (charge service charge) computers (that UK Companies throw away) to underdeveloped world and calls it charity ?
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