The folks at Apple Computers are offering free computer recycling to schools. Sounds great! But wait! There is more to the story.

Apple has announced that, for a limited time, they will accept any brand of computer for responsible recycling from schools. There are, however, a few problems with their offer. The offer is only for a limited time. The offer only applies to certain schools. If a school misses the deadline date to sign-up, the offer is over. This raises the question why?

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PC power consumption: does it really matter?

More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours (108 petajoules) of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we aren’t using them.

If we could improve the efficiency of how we use our PCs, the value of energy saved would be over $3 billion dollars! What’s more the CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent, in energy terms, to the gas consumption of one car!

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