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Your firm's old computers: Remove, recycle - or resell.

Publication: Accounting Today
Publication Date: 07-FEB-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Is your storage room rapidly filling with old computer equipment?

Does your network administrator's office look like something from the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son?

According to the National Safety Council, there are 315 million personal computers ready to be junked. Many of them in...

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...are being stored offices and homes, rather than being sold or recycled. Does your firm have a policy for disposing of old hardware? Or have you tried the following strategies, like most firms?

* Selling them to employees or others.

* Giving them to charity.

* Putting them in the dumpster.

* Hiding them in the basement.

Many of you may admit that you have tried all of the above, but are concerned about the risks and problems associated with each solution. As the problem grows, so does the amount of legislation regarding what is...

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