:: 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.:: 6.25.2003 ::
:: RE Green Computing ::
From Wired:
Bill Aims to Cut Computer Clutter
By Katie Dean
Junking the old Apple on your desk is not as easy as tossing an apple in the compost pile.
Because no widespread solution exists for taking care of obsolete computers, many are buried at the bottom of closets and garages or dropped off at charitable organizations to become the nonprofits' problem.
A federal bill designed to curb the growing computer garbage problem would tack on a small fee to computer purchases in order to fund new recycling programs.
"We have an overwhelming number of computers that need to be recycled or properly disposed of," said Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), the sponsor of the legislation. "We have a responsibility to deal with them."
Environmental advocates and manufacturers alike are glad the problem is being addressed at a national level, though both sides say the bill, dubbed the National Computer Recycling Act, needs work.
Thompson's bill would create a grant program through the Environmental Protection Agency to help fund a national infrastructure for recycling computers.
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