Green IT Toolkit

Creative uses for dead PCs

Staff Tech Republic

Published: 02 Sep 2005 14:25 BST

New legislation means that any business looking to dispose of more than the smallest amount of dead hardware will need to register with the Environment Agency, or face the government's wrath. We look at some of the more creative ways people have found of reusing their old hardware, and would like to hear from you if you have done anything similar.

Send your pictures to us at recycledhardware@zdnet.co.uk and tell us your stories using the talkback facility below and we will run a selection of the best of them in the future.

The first three we have were used for target practice, as a dolls' house, and as a griddle.

A photo of a bullet-hole-ridden Cyrix PC

A hail of bullets put an end to this Cyrix PC.
Credit: © Webshots - cyak1551.

A photo of a monitor that has been converted into the den of a southwestern dolls' house

"This was a project that Margaret in Alabama and I worked on together long distance. We both had old monitors,and a southwestern group swap that we had both done and no place for all the items. So we decided to both do a southwestern office/den in the old monitors. Great fun working on a project together."
Credit: © Webshots - noccak.