Four tips to avoid e-waste

I want to react on Matthias his second blog and want to say that I totally agree with his first sentence. In my opinion, you can also say that besides the government and business life, which try to minimise the e-waste, also private life can do a lot of things! I found a very good text on the internet, and in the text, the writer, Russel Morgan, gives tips and says what people and companies can do with their old PC's that are stored in an old attic room. The first thing you can do, says Morgan, is to donate them to people who really need your computer and can still use it. You just have to be careful that you wip your hard drive clean so that they can't find personal stuff. A second possibility is to recycle your PC with an independent company: on the Internet you definitely find your local computer recycler. The last tip that also refers to the blog of Matthias is to recycle with a manufacturer, because, as Matthias already said, they also see the big problems for the environment. HP is one of those companies. They have already recycled a lot of hardware and print cartridges. If we take a look on the web page of HP, we can indeed see that they do a lot of efforts for recycling and reusing!

(Source: http://www.smartbiz.com/article/articleprint/1525/-1/58)

Mathieu Delmulle