Read the following article about green electronic waste and choose the correct option as it follows:

"Advances in technology give consumers the availability to upgrade to newer, sleeker and more energy-efficient electronics products, it is important to remember that older electronics units and devices may not have reached the end of their useful life.

On average, the original owner keeps a laptop computer for 3-5 years and will discard their cell phone after only 24 months. However, many televisions, computers, monitors, mobile phones and other electronics are still in good working condition and can be recycled, refurbished or donated to schools and charities. There is a vibrant, for-profit secondary market for recent models of laptop computers, desktop computers and cell phones because these products retain significant value. lt is important to note that many electronic product parts can be refurbished and reused.

To protect your privacy, it is recommended that people remove ali data from a computer hard drive before donatíng, selling or recycling a computer or other information storing device. Your computer is filled with personal and financial information and this data should be properly removed in arder to protect you from identity theft. lt is necessary to wipe any media clean before disposing of it. This includes the hard drive in computers as well as floppies, zip disks, tapes and CD's. There are a number of ways to remove data from your hard drive.

The first is the physical destruction of a hard drive, which removes ali data but also removes all reuse value. The second method is known as degaussing or the use of a magnetic device to remove data. Verifying data destruction with this method is often very difficult, but can still be effective. The final method is overwriting data."

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