When you have a laptop or desktop and need to get rid of it for any reason, instead of just throwing it away it would be better to take it to be recycled. Laptop recycling is a relatively new concept and many people do not think about this when they want to get rid of any electronic item. They end up on landfills and become electronics waste, or e-waste, which is very harmful to the environment. With the world behind any global warming initiatives they can find, IPC among other notebook and desktop manufacturers offer laptop recycling as one of the ways to curb the problem.
E-waste accounts for billions of pounds of landfills and most of this waste releases toxic metals like lead and cadmium into the environment as well as arsenic which comes from glass in some flat screens. Aside from the great job these companies are doing to keep the dangerous substance out of landfills they are also benefiting by using the recycled plastics and glass from laptops to make next generation products. They are also searching for ways to make these products as efficiently as possible and reducing the amount of waste and harmful gasses during the design and manufacture process as well.
IPC offers laptop recycling as part of the WEEE directive that is in effect all over the US and customers can be given advice as to where to bring their old laptops and desktops to be recycled in an efficient way and there are also various donation services where you can hand your laptop in if someone else can still use it.
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