Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Deborah Elizabeth Finn ::
Gifts Unkind

From Deborah's Blog

Deborah Elizabeth Finn ::
Gifts Unkind
: "Gifts Unkind
by Deborah at 08:54AM (EST) on February 17, 2005 | Permanent Link
It's a powerful archetypal image - the baby left under cover of darkness on the doorstep of an orphanage.

Nowadays, we sometimes see a much less heartbreaking but thoroughly up to date version of this story: obsolete computers are left under cover of darkness on the doorstep of a nonprofit agency.

Here in Massachusetts, dumping computers into a landfill is prohibited, and these stealth donors may feel that they have hit upon a socially and environmentally responsible way of 'recycling' equipment that they no longer use. "

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