Sentence examples for discarded computer from inspiring English sources

Cardboard boxes served as his living room furniture; a discarded computer desk was his dining room table.

There's some cosmetic updating here: the characters are dressed in contemporary clothing and given contemporary locutions and cell phones; there are several references to familiar advertising slogans; and Kevin Lock's junkyard set has a prominent discarded computer.

Critics have blamed the importing of discarded computer equipment, known as toxic e-waste, for long-term chronic health problems among workers in scrapyards, as well as environmental damage.

Another type of solid waste, perhaps the fastest-growing component in many developed countries, is electronic waste, or e-waste, which includes discarded computer equipment, televisions, telephones, and a variety of other electronic devices.

As for Mr. Smith, whose campaigns have helped earn Santa Clara County the distinction of being the home of more federally designated Superfund toxic cleanup sites than any other county in the United States, his coalition is now confronting the computer industry over the nation's growing accumulation of discarded computer equipment.

A Siberian man has the march of technology to thank after fighting off a charging bear with a discarded computer, it's been reported.

In a world dominated by machines and awash in paper, it is little wonder that a discarded, computer-printed bar receipt could end up being one man's ticket to bedlam.

WHEN the Computer Recycling Center opened 10 years ago in Silicon Valley, Steven Wyatt hoped to collect 200 old and discarded computers a month.

His "Trash People," shown above in front of the cathedral, are life-size figures he began making in 1996 from discarded computers, tin cans and other refuse.

Mongo can be literally concrete (decorative slabs from old buildings) or it can be as abstract as the identities foragers steal from discarded computers.

She began taking home discarded computers she spotted in her neighborhood and taking them apart, becoming familiar with their parts and learning to make relatively simple repairs and revisions, like replacing missing sound cards and reformatting hard drives.