But just "recycling" isn't enough - in fact it can be worse than landfilling it in North America!

Why? Much of tech waste sent for recycling ends up in China and other countries where unprotected workers burn material in open fires to separate out the metals from the plastics, and use hydrochloric acid (again unprotected) to isolate gold and other precious metals. It's a horrible practice. Visit the web site of the Basel Action Network for photos of the conditions. Included in the photo gallery are American municipal, hospital and school identification stickers from material at these overseas sites.

In Ontario there is only one company that truly recycles electronics - Noranda's plant in Brampton, Ontario. They have a lead smelter on-site, and you have to pay to send material to them. There are many companies that will take your electronics waste for free, but guess where it ends up. Not at a proper recycling plant in North America, that's for sure.

Always ask the company who is picking up your e-waste where it is going for processing.

For years I too have wished for a proper CAD system that could run on Mac hardware. However, at this point I'd settle for being able to teach everyone out there that 2D CAD is a pale, shallow, crippled, painful excuse for CAD as compared to any mainstream parametric 3D CAD system.

OK, I'll concede that there is CAD for Macs, but it's a glorified electric drawing board, not a useful engineering tool. THAT is what I want to run on Macs... The day that Pro/ENGINEER, or SolidWorks, Alibre Design, or any of those ilk (and quality) can run on a Mac, THEN I will be one happy design engineer. Until then, there is no CAD for Macs.