| If you were fortunate enough to get a new | | | | expects Americans to throw out 250 million |
| computer, VCR, or television, you may be left | | | | computers by the end of 2005.You got mercury, |
| with the delimma of what to do with the old | | | | gold, zinc, all kids of mineral components that |
| one.A1-Computers encourages people to recycle | | | | these circuit boards consist of. You don`t want to |
| their old electronics rather than throwing them | | | | put them in the ground because it`ll leak. With all |
| away in the landfill. Did you know that many of | | | | the other stuff going into the landfill, it could be |
| the components can be manufactured into other | | | | crushed, get into the ground water, get back into |
| things? Recycling companies can grind down | | | | our drinking water, and lead is extremely |
| computer parts and turn them into sheets of | | | | harmful.To find out how you can recycle your |
| aluminum, car parts, and any number of other | | | | computers and other electronics in Ohio check out |
| new products.They will do a lot better being | | | | this web-site of the Ohio DNR: |
| recycled than dumped in a landfill somewhere. The | | | | You will find hundreds of recycling facilities and |
| pieces in it, the metals and the wires especially in | | | | collection programs serving Ohio residents.If you |
| PC`s. They have things that can be reused and | | | | do not live in Ohio do a search at any search |
| rebuilt.They can crush and grind those tubes up. | | | | engine and type in 'computer recycle your town' |
| They can be a bullet, fishing weight, all types of | | | | and find out where you can bring your computers |
| stuff like that. People just don`t think about it until | | | | or other electronics to be safely disposed of. Your |
| they see the amount of waste that exists. It`s | | | | children and there children will thank |
| incredible.4 million tons of electronic waste goes | | | | you!A1-Computers |
| into U.S. landfills every year, according to the | | | | For more information on computer tips visit our |
| Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA | | | | website. |