Trashware

Computers being collected for recycling at a pickup event in Olympia, Washington, United States.

A map of the global digital divide.

Trashware in North America or Totally reconditioned hardware in the UK and Ireland is computer equipment that is assembled from old hardware, using cleaned and checked parts from different computers, for use by disadvantaged people to bridge the digital divide.

Trashware, with its social aims, is different from retrocomputing, which has only cultural and recreational purposes.

Disambiguation

Trashware can also mean software of low quality.

• Bundled software
• Shovelware

See also

• Computer Recycling
• Retrocomputing
• Green computing
• Basel Convention
• China RoHS
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS)
• Challenging the Chip, a book about labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry
• Camara (charity) (Ireland)
• Digger gold
• E-Cycling
• eDay, an electronic waste collection day in New Zealand
• Electronic waste
• Electronic Waste Recycling Act
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
• Environmental Waste Controls‎ plc
• I-recycle
• PowerGenix
• Recycle It, Don't Trash It!

References

• Trashware is rightware for cash-strapped organizations by Marco Fioretti on October 04, 2004

External links

• Obsolete Computer Museum
• Ancient Computer
• (Italian) Gli amici di HAL
• 1000Bit