and Apple are charging anywhere from $13 to $30 to dispose off your old computer

Right now, manufacturers such as HP and Apple are charging anywhere from $13 to $30 to dispose off your old computer. That’s just enough disincentive to ensure that most of those systems will ultimately end up in a landfill anyways.

This is a huge problem—not just for users, but for businesses. Here, at PC Magazine Labs, we’re in the process of phasing out the last of our old CRT monitors and replacing them with LCDs. CRT monitors contain a huge amount of toxic lead. We’re talking 8 pounds a pop, if you consider all the glass, frit and solder in a big CRT. This isn’t something that we would want leaking into our water tables, would we?

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative