Dust off your old laptops and reuse them

There are many ways that you can squeeze that last remaining bit of life out of your old laptops to help minimise e-waste at your homes.

Ever since the boom of the consumer electronics business, modern households have been equipped with many technological devices. Modern Nepali households these days have necessitated the use of smartphones, routers, laptops, and desktop computers. But among the live devices, blinking away their operations, are the ones that lie forgotten inside storerooms or drawers. Be it through planned obsolescence or excessive use, these lifeless devices have been fueling a very serious e-waste problem—with the world seeing around 53.6 million tons of electrical waste . While electronics have become increasingly difficult to repair over the years, adding to the e-waste problem, there are many ways that you can squeeze that little bit of life out of your old laptops to help minimise that problem at our, the consumers, end. If you have an abandoned laptop that you just forgot about after your upgrade, now would be a nice time to fish them out and try these cool DIY hacks to breathe new life into your old laptops.