With Framework’s computers, that’s exactly what you’ve got the option to do.

For a start, few materials are truly recyclable.

Old water bottlesdon’t usually endup as new water bottles, for example.

Someone holding a motherboard that has been removed from a laptop computer.

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And perhaps the psychological comfort actually makes us buy and use more.

Emissions from you using it are just 19% of the total.

After that, you might give it away.

Someone out in nature collecting trash, placing a discarded water bottle into a trash bag.

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And after that, how about repurposing it?

If you upgrade the CPU or storage, the old stuff might still work, only slower.

Soon you will be able to snap them into atiny $39 desktop case designed by Cooler Master.

Framework’s new Cooler Master case for repurposing old computer parts.

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This could become a server, a kids' or family computer, and so on.

Our whole world is set up for disposability and buying new.

Closeup on Framework’s Cooler Master case with parts installed.

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