Monday, November 13, 2006

Electronic waste

Good article in the NY Times, reprinted at CNet News, on the fits and starts for recycling electronic waste.

Clearing a path from desktop to the recycler

In New York, the bulk of the effort to recycle electronic trash has been left to voluntary efforts.
The New York Times By Paul Vitello
The New York Times
Published: November 11, 2006, 12:23 PM PST

From out of closets, and from deep corners of basements, emerged the digital equivalent of a thousand Proust-like madeleine moments: old Commodore Plus/4's with cracker crumbs in the keys, original IBM's with floppy disks but no hard drives, perfectly good but long dormant things called word processors.

Does anyone know of any local programs? If so, hit the comment link.

1 comment:

Barbara Fullerton said...

Plano has a recycling system for old computers, gadgets, etc. Check out the city's website for more information.