Web log 12

Blog post 12

e-Waste-Action-Blog

Green computers lead to a greener future, both literally and figuratively.

As a consumer of your products, it shocks me to learn about how toxic my product is; it almost literally makes me feel dirty to think about the materials in this computer, and it sickens me even worse to find out the fate of this product once its life ends which, by design, isn’t going to be very long right? I also find it irritating that you refuse to take back your products when they are rendered obsolete; but this I can understand the product is unrecyclable and because of all the toxic chemicals used, it wouldn’t be beneficial to take the product back; it’d end up in the trash anyways.

However, I think that greener designs for your computers would be much more beneficial to current and future product sales. Greener products means that taking the product back would be beneficial to you, because you wouldn’t have to buy new materials to make new computers, making it economically profitable. Greener products also make the consumers feel better about buying your product; they don’t feel like they’re buying future trash and then it makes it easier for them to recommend your products to others; which is a good thing. Also, I would conisder upgradable products because not everyone wants to buy a new computer when a new innovation is made to make using the computer smoother. If you can't sale computers, you will still profit off of the upgrade made to the computer. Consumers also like products that last, people are also looking for the products that work the best and last the longest, so you, being some of the top computer companies should set an example for the rest of the market; a positive example the will lead to a brighter economic future.

 I stated before that greener computer literally lead to a brighter future, which is true, and can be easily proven. See, when computers are made with toxic, non-reusable chemicals, then are shipped to poor foreign countries to be physical broken down and sold as scraps. It not only makes you look bad; which discourages people from buying your products; but it also causes an insurmountable amount of pollution which is slowly but surely rotting our earth. Greener computers would help preserve our world, I mean, what’s the point of being using a scheme to get richer faster if it means you would have world to enjoy your wealth in. I encourage each of you to consider this when telling the designers what types of computers you want to market.

Thank you for your time.