I found out that recycling your personal computer within the State of Pahang in Malaysia is almost unheard of. Most Local Councils within the State do not have a recycling program for this purpose. The website of the Temerloh Local Town Council where I live provides links which are outdated and from the same website, it is clear that recycling is only paid lip-service and best done for 'cosmetic' purposes only. There are a number of recycling centres in the town itself, where the community can send their old newspapers, plastic bottles and containers and these are collected on specific days of the week by the Local Council themselves or their contractors. This is not enough. Those living in this town know that there is a Malaysian Newsprint Industries' Paper Mill nearby to which our local council can send the papers collected to but is this the only reason for having a recycling program within the area?
Recycling computers have no home in my own hometown. Nobody collects and sends them off to any other 3rd world countries, as suggested by many recycling gurus. I tried to send my own office old PCs to a recycler who advertised on the net recently but apparently my 12 PCs and 4 printers are too small for them to take in. We need to have a community collection to make it worthwhile for recycling purchase programs.
Why not start one in your community today?
