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Old computers find new life overseas

source: Rocky Mountain News | May 07, 07 | submitted by Pat Coate

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - In her native Malaysia, Mary Tiong developed a reputation for selling leftover computer monitors for a large manufacturer behind the industry's best-known brands.

Tiong, 41, says her company, Second Life Computer Remanufacturing, has environmental and philanthropic goals: It helps stem a rising tide of electronic waste in the United States and fulfills a need for basic computer equipment in the developing world.


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"Somebody's junk is another person's treasure."
- Mary Tiong, entrepreneur/environmentalist

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