hi johnson you obviously are misinformed in pc recycling
repair cost cannot be equivalent or higher to a new pc cost, you just juggle around working parts to make a complete pc the unuseable you recycle, might even get paid some for it also shipping and repairing cannot be higher than the price of new pc well if the donor has enough money to ship a new pc, i'm all for it regards rene > I cannot see how this is going to be beneficial to an african country when > the cost of repair is often as high or higher than the cost of buying a > new PC of the same quality or higher quality! > By the time that PC hits any african city or school, the cost of shipping > and repairing it > outstrips the cost of buying a new equivalent PC! Why don't they instead > buy an equivalent new PC and send to these countries? The answer is > obvious. > > Johnson > > --- On Tue, 12/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [DDN] e-waste in Ghana > To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" > <[email protected]> > Received: Tuesday, 12 August, 2008, 12:46 PM > > hi Kwame > > on the upside, it can be an opportunity for ghana > > a lot of organizations have already written how to recycle pc's and other > ict equipment > > the hardest part is to find buyers for the segregated pc parts > > china and india are prospects with their new appetites for metals > > surplus ict equipment (and other surplus materials) from the developed > countries are really opportunities for developing countries > > in this case for school children > > just the right mindset and procedures need to be implemented > > reduce-reuse-repair-recycle > > regards > > rene > y3k foundation > > > > >> Denizens: >> I brought this issue up several years ago (about 10yrs). I was berated >> by >> another person >> who accused me of crying wolf and rather preventing some poor school >> children in Africa >> from receiving free computers donated by "philanthropist". I > tried to go >> to >> the archives to >> retrieve that thread but I can only go to 2001. >> >> This is a growing menace to African society where under the guise of >> donating computers, >> Africans rather end up being a "dump site". >> >> we are still watching, >> stay strong, >> KDD >> >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7544003.stm >> >> Greenpeace says it is concerned about the electronic waste trade in >> Ghana >> which it claims is putting >> the health of workers at risk. The campaign group says the dismantling >> of >> discarded computers on >> rubbish tips exposes people to smoke and chemicals. >> >> Will Ross reports from Accra in Ghana. >> _______________________________________________ >> DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >> To unsubscribe, send a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > > > Win a MacBook Air or iPod touch with Yahoo!7. > http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
