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Environmental issues such as reducing emissions, improving energy efficiencies, and recycling are usually associated with heavy industries such as metal fabrication and chemical processing. When environmental issues are discussed within the context of data processing, they are often focused on desktop units and framed in terms of equipment ergonomics or Energy Star PC components.
For example, PCS, MACs, printers, disk drives and monitors are available that power down when idle. Other environmentally friendly approaches include recycling PC computer components by salvaging heavy metals.
On a larger scale, some companies have used incentives from utility ...