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Re-use rather than recycling is greenest IT strategy
In other news, reseachers have confirmed that the Pope is almost certainly a Catholic and Bears generally defecate in the woods.
To be fair, I didn’t know the numbers…
For IT specifically, the environmental payback for recycling is small, as the vast majority of energy use is expended during the production, rather than the use phase – 80% and 20% respectively.
… but continuing to use a perfectly good PC is clearly going to cost less than melting it down.
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