When you throw away your computer, where does it go?
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Parallax_
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PostPosted: Wed, 16th May 2007 20:45    Post subject: When you throw away your computer, where does it go?

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Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground, where the poor make a living off other people’s spare parts.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3807


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Jenni
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PostPosted: Wed, 16th May 2007 22:01    Post subject:
Not as funny as it may look. Their primary aim is to extract the gold from the machines by burning mercury. Not too good for the health of them. They die quite young.


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Mortibus




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PostPosted: Wed, 16th May 2007 22:02    Post subject:
lol at that tiny tractor Very Happy
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mrhelpfull




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd May 2007 07:59    Post subject:
How many horsepower could that littly puppy have,prob couldnt tow a little wooden
card Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd May 2007 08:24    Post subject:
I thought they were going to computer's heaven Sad
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Epsilon
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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd May 2007 08:50    Post subject:
They farm pcb's all day to get gold then in the evening they farm gold in WoW, what is it with these people Razz
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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd May 2007 17:21    Post subject:
Epsilon wrote:
They farm pcb's all day to get gold then in the evening they farm gold in WoW, what is it with these people Razz


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GestaltO




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PostPosted: Fri, 25th May 2007 13:33    Post subject:
In the UK your company can get fined if you dont recycle your computers properly through a proper agent (and it supposed to apply to personal computers too). They are trying to cut down landfill sites. Guess they dont want it ending up like that idiocracy movie! Rolling Eyes
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