So Here's a story...

Some Italian call center company swaps out the pc's as they age and become unreliable... When they get a big pile of them together they ship them off to a non-profit that donates them to a project that places pc's in schools in countries like say Mozambique...

The company takes a tax write-off on whatever their remaining depreciated value is (probably as functional hardware), rather than paying to have them disposed of or recycled (lifecycle management). The folks in Mozambique get, you guessed it, broken pc's. Out of 65 in the batch currently sitting here maybe 20, possibly less were in working order. The most common problem is burned out cpu fans, some machines also have bad capictors, a few don't boot for varoius reasons, a couple are just dead...

So Africa is like the world's dumping ground for dead computer hardware. It's not like they can be demanufactured here, beyond the expedient of recovering the major steel and aluminum components. Thanks european jackasses, keep your own trash next time, save the rest of us some work.