hardware recycling

[Dave Mason]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> "Bleeding heart donors" may feel good about having "done something,"
> but it doesn't make it great economics.

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Arguably the same could be said about _most_ recycling programs.

...if you consider no economic cost for enviromental degradation.

Neither the manufacture nor the disposal of most electronic equipment
are particularly green!  So it behooves us to make as much use of them
as possible.  That said, there is a point at which greater power
consumption of older systems, and potentially worse disposal practices
(although that's fairly hard to imagine) might make sending of old
equipment to "3rd world" countries uneconomic even factoring in
environmental impact.

../Dave
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