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Today’s computer industry innovates rapidly, bringing new technologies onto the market every 18 months. Users buy new systems and retire old computers on the average of every 2 years. As a result, some 6,000 video terminals and computer displays are discarded every day. They are dumped into garbage and eventually buried in landfills or stored in attics and garages for a later day when they will be tossed out.
Unfortunately, computers and their monitors (and television and video display terminals in general) are made with toxic materials that leach into the soil, threatening the environment. If burned, they create toxic gases. Used computers are hazardous waste.
While state regulators have been slow to act, they recently responded to an inquiry with a letter affirming that cathode ray tubes (CRTs) used in televisions, computer video terminals and many forms of electronic displays are a hazardous waste, and, under California law, are banned from disposal in landfills.
What should we do with used computers and CRTs, then?
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