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An environmental policy for recycling computers is modeled.

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The volumes of waste computers and other IT and office equipment are increasing each year. The increase is partly due to the high rate of technological change in this sector - as computers become faster and the newest software requires more memory, organisations and individuals are up grading their computers more frequently. The computers that are then discarded are often in good working condition, but still mainly end up buried in landfill sites. Ink cartridge recycling or refilling is now common practice in many companies.

We recoginse that the computer wastes inevitably impact on the environment in a number of ways and we wish to minimise the potential ...

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