Grist Magazine: Control-Alt-Recycle

Grist Magazine offers tips for environment-friendly computing. U.S. consumers are being cheated out of the chance to buy the greenest possible computers, according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and other environmental groups that have joined forces on the Computer TakeBack Campaign.

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April 21, 2004, 10:45 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @legalaidtech

Grist Magazine offers tips for environment-friendly computing.

U.S. consumers are being cheated out of the chance to buy the greenest possible computers, according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and other environmental groups that have joined forces on the Computer TakeBack Campaign.

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