New Life for Old Computers
Dead Electronics Going to Waste (washingtonpost.com)
RetroBox -- headed by a cheerful Harvard Business School graduate named Stampp Corbin, who sees America's high-tech rejects as a healthy revenue stream -- assures its customers that it will recycle their old electronics and then give them 70 percent of his profits, while simultaneously wiping any confidential business or personal data out of old hard drives.
The moral dimension of the problem of high tech waste is that currently the United States is simply exporting its waste — including heavy metals and other toxic waste — to China and other poorer countries, where it is poisoning their citizens and low wage workers.
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