The uses of PCs are being constantly multiplied, mainly after the arrival of the Internet. Today in western countries, they substitute quite often telephone, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, cinema or television, board games... Even on the Mediterranean area, there is a great disparity in the use of computers . In general, the countries of the Southern shore of the Mediterranean, do not have yet a dependency that may be even harmful (in Spain for example, there have been alerts because of the behavioural disturbance in young people "hooked on" computer chats). Either if we have a lot or few computers, let us prevent that the technology brings us farther than desirable.
The constant coming up of new models which are quicker, or have more capacity or new features is part of the consumerism escalation. According to the entity of recovery of computers "Fundación Bip Bip", in Spain are thrown away 42,000 tons of computer waste every year, and only an 8% is reused. We have a lot of means to use a computer without having to buy a new one.
