So much the better if it gets resold on eBay. It is sort of like recycling paper keeps one cycle of paper out of the ground. After recycled once, the paper loses its strength and is not even much good for newspaper.
If we can even keep one cycle of the stuff out of the ground or eek the last cycle out of a PIII processor before admitting that even the first grader in poor America cannot use it, it is a gain in education and a lower demand in production.
The downside to reselling used hardware is that it makes computer hardware like the hot potatoe game: one does not want to be the last person holding it as they lose. What I mean is that whoever is holding the computer or the monitor when its useful life is effectively zero, has to pay the piper to get it recycled. If there is aluminum or copper in the item, they are safe. If it is lead such as what one may find in a monitor, than this is a cost. For the thousands if not millions of monitors (CRTs) we have shipped to poorer regions of the world, we have exported a long term problem for places that can ill afford these issues.
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So much the better if it gets resold on eBay. It is sort of like recycling paper keeps one cycle of paper out of the ground. After recycled once, the paper loses its strength and is not even much good for newspaper.
If we can even keep one cycle of the stuff out of the ground or eek the last cycle out of a PIII processor before admitting that even the first grader in poor America cannot use it, it is a gain in education and a lower demand in production.
The downside to reselling used hardware is that it makes computer hardware like the hot potatoe game: one does not want to be the last person holding it as they lose. What I mean is that whoever is holding the computer or the monitor when its useful life is effectively zero, has to pay the piper to get it recycled. If there is aluminum or copper in the item, they are safe. If it is lead such as what one may find in a monitor, than this is a cost. For the thousands if not millions of monitors (CRTs) we have shipped to poorer regions of the world, we have exported a long term problem for places that can ill afford these issues.