Bruce Toback writes:

> One estimate I read recently says that in five years, there'll be a half
> a billion PCs in landfills. This is a good use of resources?

c|net's NEWS.COM has a series of articles on this today:

   http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-5787986-0.html

From the lead page:

  "A growing movement to recycle PCs and other electronics has governments
   from King County, Wash., to the European Parliament examining ways to
   keep those machines from ending up in landfills and posing pollution
threats.
  ...
  "The computer industry acknowledges that its products are becoming
   obsolete faster than it is putting new machines on the market--leading
   businessess and consumers to store tons of aging equipment until
agreement
   can be reached on a way to dispose of them without doing grave harm to
the
   world's environment."

--Glenn

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