The first project was a computer recycling
program that turned into a hazardous material disposal.
HEALTH WARNING!
Old PCs piling
up in landfills present a large burden on the
environment and create the potential for widespread
environmental pollution. Computer equipment contains
materials that are potentially harmful to the
environment, such as lead. Instead of ending up in a
landfill, this equipment will be shipped to a company
that will properly dismantle and recycle all this
equipment.
Some 70
million computers already have been sent to landfills.
In another five years, five hundred million more
computers may be joining them. Computers, cell phones,
televisions, and other electronic gear are chock-full of
toxins. Already, the five pounds or more of lead in
computer screens and TVs represents 40% of all the lead
in U.S. landfill. Each year, a billion pounds of
plastics, about one-quarter of them polyvinyl chloride
that produce cancer-producing dioxin when burned, are
dumped with electronic scrap.
