Re: Reuse or Recycle Your Old Computer
Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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On 03/02/14 13:07, James Linder wrote: > Tom just for fun (well not really, but for a consider this) > > Your old computer uses much more energy than a new one. Powering the > beast creates much more CO2 than the new ones ... But about half the energy used by a PC is in its manufacture and delivery (called "embedded energy") and half the electricity to run it. So the new computer has to save a lot of energy to make up for its manufacture. If the components are reused or recycled, rather than thrown away, this will lower the energy use. Also newer computers tend to have less materials and so take less energy to make: http://www.katescomment.com/embedded-energy-of-servers-pc/ My students spend a semester working out the trade-offs between a new computer using less energy and the waste caused by replacing the old computer: http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/introduction.shtml > binning it (hopefully decently) ... Yes, Australian has a "National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme", funded by industry. Old equipment is sorted, packed into shipping containers and then sent for recycling: http://www.environment.gov.au/node/21281 -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html