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Environmental Protection from a PC Perspective |
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May 2008 |
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We have read more and more about carbon emission and green awareness as political agendas these days. Some PC vendors also jumped onto the bandwagon and announced green plans. As an average citizen, we may find most of those talks quite empty. Let us put 2 practical contexts into this issue now. First, all Compucon computers are assembled from motherboards and chasses that are ROHS compliant. ROHS is a European Community guideline and stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. Even the polystyrene for internal packaging of the PC carton box is ROHS compliant. Second, Compucon uses high efficiency power supply units for high wattage servers as a means of reducing waste. High efficiency PSU carries a price tag and it will be gradually introduced to low power PC over time. We will address the issue again if the government says PC user has to pay a carbon tax!
Please see the Environmental Section for more information. The Environmental Section can be accessed on the front page. There is a hot button on the RHS of the page.
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