Your PC is P.C.

Environmentally friendly computing used to mean turning off your PC at the end of a working day. That may cut electricity wastage, but what about the rest of the environmental mess that comes with using a computer? The energy-intensive process of refining and molding plastic means that your computer monitor alone is responsible for a cloud of emissions. And when you eventually toss that monitor on the scrap pile, it'll take years to break down and will likely leak a pool of chemical nasties into the ground. But computing doesn't have to cost the earth.

British firm PlayEngine...

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