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When purchasing a personal computer look for models that have upgradable central processing units (CPUs) that enable you to upgrade your computer without having to buy a new one.
Turn off your computer monitor when you are not using it, 2 percent of the nation's electricity can be attributed to personal computer use, and screen savers do not save energy.
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Last year, the National Recycling Coalition, an industry group, conducted the first large-scale survey of America's electronic recycling efforts, The results were staggering. Between now and 2007, the survey found, 500 million personal computers will become obsolete. In 1998 alone, 20 million computers were taken out of service; only 2.3 million were recycled
The Remaining are assumed to be languishing in attics, basements and office storage closets. Or they have been thrown in the garbage. once in a landfill, a computer monitor can be toxic: each cathode-ray tube, or C.R.T., contains four to six pounds of led.
According to a recent study by the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center, approximately 20.6 million personal computers became obsolete in the United States in 1998. Of that number, only 11 percent, or about 2.3 million units, were recycled. Disposal of old computers could become one of the biggest solid waste issues in the coming years. While the outer case of the computer hard drive and monitor can oftentimes be used again, the inside of the computer, the part that becomes obsolete, contains hazardous materials such as lead, cadmium and mercury. The fear is that it will end up in landfills not designed to accept contaminated material.
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