Britons would rather dump their old PCs than recycle them, reports new research by Fujitsu-Siemens Computers.
The research highlighted that 12.5 million unwanted but working PCs and laptops have not been reused or recycled by their owners. Of those surveyed, 5.1 million said they took their old computer to their local dump, while more than a million admitted to dumping redundant machines in household rubbish or even in the countryside.
Only one in 10 unwanted PCs were recycled through a manufacturer's recycling facility, with 40 percent of those going to a friend or charity, which Fujitsu described as a "huge missed opportunity".
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Philip Dodderidge said: wwwcomputeraidorg is a charity which will accept all computers with a reasonable specification P3 and peripherals thoroughly erase all data and then donate them to good causes often African schools You can either deliver to North London or pay the postageI got rid of several old monitors by emailing a few local schools They even came and collected them