:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 4.22.2003 ::
:: Earth Day: Green Computing ::
Recycling not easy for PC makers
By Ian Fried, CNET News.com
April 22, 2003, 4:00 AM PT
What goes around comes around.
That's a lesson the computer industry is learning the hard way as it tries to develop workable plans for recycling the millions of PCs, monitors and printers that have been assembled in recent years.
The upside is that by examining the recycling process, computer makers are starting to change the way they build their gear, making it easier to dispose of the volumes of obsolete systems--and a handful of potentially toxic ingredients they contain--in an environmentally friendly way. Although many PC makers have a long way to go with their recycling efforts, some of the lessons learned are already showing up in new designs.
CNET's "The Big Picture" RE computer recycling
posted by me
:: 2:21:00 PM [+] ::
...
