Your mission this weekend: Gather up your used computers, cell phones, batteries, CDs, DVDs, and other electronic garbage and get it ready for the weekend after that.
Earth Day is coming up on Sunday, April 22, inspiring tech companies to host recycling take-back programs. Dell, for example, is teaming up with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on an Earth Day event in Washington D.C. They'll take back any brand of computer and peripheral from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 22nd at Freedom Plaza. California Integrated Waste Management Board is also offering similar e-recycling events at locations throughout the state.
Responsibly disposing of your old e-waste is great, but what if you could buy new equipment that used less energy, came in less-exotic but more biodegradable packaging, and incorporated fewer toxic substances (like mercury and lead). Would you buy them? Would you buy them even if they took a performance hit?
We'd like to know. Be so kind as to take our poll:
Regarding the PCWORLD 'green poll':
Why is 'No Negative Price or Performance Impact' not a choice?
Seems to me this is just another example of why any THINKING
person should discount poll, period.
It's obvious PC World is about PC corporations. Corporations traditionally have not wanted anything to do with environmental issues. It would require extra work. It would require original thought. It's just easier to avoid the entire subject.
Making a poll with limited choices is also easier. Why think differently? Corporations, including PC World Communications, Inc. rarely include total cost scenarios (pollution created, disposal, etc) into their calculations. They leave it up to other people to solve the problems they create. Voila! No environmental costs.
Therefore, there couldn't be a scenario where price and performance remain the same. It's dismissed out of hand. It's a reasoning based upon a selective view of total cost.