E-waste: Don’t let your laptop turn toxic
June 7, 2007
Posted in Lifestyle
South Africans don’t really have a clue when it comes to recycling e-waste — old electronic equipment, like PCs, TVs, printers. Your average person on the street here probably doesn’t know that you can’t just throw e-waste out with the garbage in case it turns toxic in a landfill site. Although, fortunately, Mr Average is more likely to store old PCs and printers in a garage on the off-chance that they can be given to a good cause one day. After all, we PC owners in Africa live on a little first-world island separated from our poorer neighbours by a gaping digital divide. The problem is, nobody seems to know who to give their old PCs to. So they gather dust until Mr Average decides to clean out the garage. Then what? But things are beginning to change.
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