Some material may be landfilled if there is no recycling process available, or if the only alternative would be burning it for fuel, which is less desirable than landfilling. Vendors may not send to the landfill material that could be recycled. All processing of these materials must occur in North America or Western Europe. Vendors may not ship overseas any material considered hazardous by The Basel Action Network. The criteria that we use to consider and approve recyclers are based on those of Freegeek Portland: Materials that we cannot reuse are sent to a recycler that we have carefully chosen based on their processes. We are given a lot of material that we cannot reuse, most commonly because its age makes it infeasible for use in a modern personal computer or because we have tested it as non-working. Our computer buyers are diverted from buying newly produced computers, which further reduces the energy cost associated with putting a computer into their hands. Since reused materials don't need to be processed by recyclers, there is no energy cost to turning the materials into a new usable product. We reuse any materials we can to build complete computer systems to sell for far below the used "market rate." Reuse is the most environmentally-friendly path for your old hardware.
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