It’s true, computers are made of very bad things, and for a long time, we consumers, and we corporations, have ignored what happens to those bad things after we’re done with them. But since 2007 is the year of the Greening, it’s no longer so easy to ignore where our detritus ends up. In fact, Apple godhead Steve Jobs recently announced their initiatives in cleaning up our digital trash, strongly noting, in response to Greenpeace’s nonstop pestering, that they’ve in fact been way ahead of the pack for a number of years now. I wrote a small piece on it for Portfolio.com.