We always put aside the ill-effects of computers as always we are busy making hubpages, checking emails, uploading pics, promoting our ebsites, chatting with our friends, listening to music and the list has no end. Surely, we  haven't realized how deadly it could be to our health and the environment as well.

But the soaring global environmental crisis is not something which can be neglected. Rather the time has come to check out some eco-friendly and environment friendly alternatives to these hazardous traditional computers. We each has to make an effort to curb these bad effects. 

The only answer to this crisis can be GREEN COMPUTING or the computers made of recyclable and non-toxic elements. Lets have a look why we need to dump our old computers -

• The inefficient traditional computers consume as large as 22-22 billion kilowatts-hours of energyper year. The Department of Energy reported.

• Morever they are made of toxic and hostile material such as lead and mercury

• They make the most of the 4.6 million tons of garbage and waste made by consumer electronic appliances. Greenpeace calculated.

• They are energy-inefficient and a single old model computer consumes as much energy sufficient to run 3-4 GREEN COMPUTERS.The negatives, forcing you to dump them, of such computers can be many. But instead of talking about the drawbacks of traditional computers, lets talk about the plus points of their alternatives -

1. The computing appliances waste will see a reduction of about 4 million pounds.
2. Using such computers, we can save as much electricity sufficient enough to light 2 million homes around US.
3. There is almost no use or drastically minimized use of deadly toxic elements such as ; mercury, lead etc.
4. There is no use of toxic coatings. They use only those paints and coatings which can be recycled.
5. Almost 3/4th of a green computer systems consists of recyclable parts and accessories. Thus they can be reused which means minimized waste.
6. Not only the computer parts, even the packaging of the green computers is done using green materials.

Green Electronics Council, Ore, has come up with an online database(EPEAT) which judges computing appliances according to their efficiency and environment friendliness and ranks according on a point table.

The “greenery” of a laptop is tested on a point scale of 27. A model of Toshiba came first scoring 22 while some models of Sony, Lenovo and Apple scored 21 to secure the second spot.

While Lenovo seems to steal the the limelight when it comes to evaluate the green features of desktops with a score of 20 out of 24.

And lastly, while buying a green computer never forget to see the ENERGY STAR approval.

So what have you decided? Are you still going to stick to your older version of computers or getting ready to buy the much efficient and environmental friendly green computer?