La Greenga: COLUMN: Better recycle; Discman is not coming back
June 4th, 2010
EL PASO — Eight-track, VCR, calculator watch, sun dial. What do they all have in common? They’re obsolete.
Let’s face it, that Discman is never making a comeback. And yet you can’t bear to chuck it. After all, it still works. The only problem is, nobody wants it. As someone who once took a cassette car radio to a pawnshop only to have the clerk laugh, I understand.
In the United States, computers are replaced every two or three years on average. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality