I love how society as a whole is going green. Everywhere I turn, I see signs of our growing environmental awareness. Recycling bins are becoming almost as plentiful as trash cans, and shirts and tote bags that endorse going green are a new fashion statement.
And now, to make things even better, computers are going green too.
Most used PCs in the United States are dumped in landfills or given to third world countries because recycling computer parts is too slow and expensive. Well, here comes the US Environmental Protection Agency to the rescue! The EPA is providing funds to help the organization EPCglobal work with manufacturers to put radio frequency identification tags on all their components. These tags allow recycling plants to use scanners that immediately read each part's make, model, and history as the parts came to the plant. These scanners make the recycling of computer parts become a much more efficient process, which helps minimize electronic waste.
Kudos to this effort to combine technology and environmental awareness to help the world go green, one computer at a time!
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