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Originally Posted by Less
How much harm will be suffered when you finally throw that keyboard you are using away? It isn't bio-degradable but your perfectly happy to use it even though umpteen pollutants have been released into the atmosphere in it's production!
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I was quite horrified recently to see in TV what happens to old equipment like PC keyboards. Not simply a case of not bio-degrading but the things are shipped out to other countries where people pock out the tiny bits of useful metals etc and the rest is burned (yes in great piles of atospheric pollution!)
Here we are dutifully sorting out plastics and cans and bottles for recycling, taking our large rubbish items to the tip and re-usable items to charity shops and jumble sales etc so as to produce as little waste as possible and yet on the other side of the world OUR (I use the term meaning people who use this type of equipment - not AccyWebbers in particular) PC type junk is polluting the world at an alarming rate, not to mention the harm caused individually to the people who are salvaging the bits.
On the subject of car emmissions vs second hand tobacco smoke - the former rarely happens in an enclosed space and so doesn't have the same relative impact.