The West Germans champion Green issues to the point of fanaticism – while the East Germans wonder what their wealthy siblings are talking about, but it pays to be seen to be Green, even if you’re Blue and so IBM Deutschland has launched a programme to take back the old IBM computers and electronic calculators its customers no longer want, for recycling. IBM reckons that 85% of the parts of its computers are recyclable but charges users $30 for taking away a small computer, $2,485 for a big electronic calculator. It expects to recover 2,000 tonnes of scrap at its base near Frankfurt.
