IBM DEBUTS COMPUTER RECYCLING
IBM is launching a computer recycling program, aimed at relieving a problem
some environmentalists see as one of the biggest solid waste issues to
emerge in decades. For $29.99, the IBM PC Recycling Service will accept and
process all PCs and PC parts. Shipping is included, so consumers need only
to box up the equipment and send it via UPS to Envirocycle, a Pennsylvania
recycling firm (www.recycle.net/recycle/trade/envcycle.html). Useable
equipment will be donated needy organizations and everything else will be
recycled "in an environmentally responsible way," says Wayne Balta,
director of IBM's corporate environmental affairs. The program is billed as
the first one aimed at individual consumers and small businesses, and
requires no purchase or trade-in on the customer's part. The National
Safety Council's Environmental Health Center estimates that 315 million
computers will become obsolete in the next few years, and a spokesman for
the U.S. Public Interest Research Group says, "The disposal of 'dead
computers' is likely to be the next big solid waste challenge that our
nation will have to deal with." (AP/Los Angeles Times 14 Nov 2000)
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Source: NewsScan Daily, 14 November 2000 ("Above The Fold")
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