GreenerComputing Staff: “A new article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology looks at the market for reuse of exported computers and other electronics and finds that there is plenty of life in those old machines — although e-waste exports still pose a significant environmental problem. The study [fee based], Product or Waste? Importation and End-of-Life Processing of Computers in Peru, was conducted by Ramzy Kahhat and Eric Williams of the Arizona State University and looks at reuse of imported, used electronics in Peru [which] maintains an in-depth database that tracks how many new and used computers are imported…What the researchers found suggests that, at least in one country, imported electronics are not immediately destined for meltdown or other polluting and poisonous dismantling practices, as has been shown in China and other countries..”