hardware recycling
Tech kit recycling rules explained
News Companies buying IT equipment should expect to negotiate with suppliers over whether to take on the recycling costs of new hardware, or simply pay a premium for the tech vendor to handle the process, according to the Environment Agency (EA) and... [25 Jan 2007]
WEEE: Here at last
News The EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is expected to drive up the costs of IT and other tech hardware, as manufacturers are forced to cover the cost of recovering and recycling the items. [02 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Stories of the year
News Along with the 'IT energy crisis', hardware recycling and a greater concern for an organisation's total 'carbon output' came to the forefront this year, with ever more companies realising what makes sense for the planet can make sense for the... [20 Dec 2006]
Leader: Is new kit a waste of money?
Leader On the other hand, the other great 'green IT' concern besides energy consumption is hardware recycling - so the more kit you throw away, the more pollution you create. With hardware vendors continually hounding IT chiefs, it's no wonder they cave... [16 Nov 2006]
Queen's speech highlights 'green IT'
News Legislation for the recycling of computers and other electronics is set to be agreed on at the end of this year. Under proposals of the EU's WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive, vendors would be made responsible for... [15 Nov 2006]
Power-hungry IT industry is "unsustainable"
News Instead, Gartner warns the IT industry must look beyond power to broader issues such as limiting carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, using materials from renewable resources, recycling materials and reusing heat from data centres. [07 Nov 2006]
How to grow your own eco-friendly tech team
Case Study The not-for-profit charitable trust aims to teach visitors about our relationship with and dependence upon plants and this includes championing issues such as recycling and reducing waste. As a result, as well as keeping the systems running, Eden's... [13 Sep 2006]
Brampton Factor: IT and the environment - friend or foe?
Comment Recycling is vastly inferior to reusing or upgrading hardware. Repeated delays have postponed European action to hold manufacturers responsible for recycling products. Perhaps that is not such a bad thing because there are arguments both against... [25 Jul 2006]
Employers ignore recycling
News Despite a growing awareness of the need for private and public sector organisations to operate in an environmentally friendly manner few companies are still doing enough to recycle everything they should - from paper to IT hardware. [24 Mar 2006]
Eircom trumpets PC recycling success
News Eircom has completed a hardware recycling effort while in the UK legislation mandating such actions, the WEEE Directive, is not yet law. The PC recycling was part of a hardware refresh across the company managed by EDS. [21 Dec 2005]
Insurer slashes servers down from 100 to just six
Case Study That was 14 months ago [when the project started] and we haven't bought any more servers since and we are decommissioning some and recycling them," said Markel International's IT director Steve Fountain. [26 Jul 2005]
CIO Jury: IT departments have no WEEE worries
News The new electrical equipment recycling law due to come into force next year will have little impact on IT departments, according to UK IT chiefs. Ian Auger, IT director at ITN, said: "We will need to be sure that when planning projects which... [30 Jun 2005]
What does WEEE mean to IT?
News Suppliers may pay the cost of collection while manufacturer pay for recycling. Going by the full name of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, the legislation aims to force businesses and consumers to dispose of electronic... [17 Feb 2005]
New mobile for Christmas? Give the old one to charity
News Falkirk-based recycling company The Recycling Appeal runs a programme whereby a portion of the funds generated from the sale of used mobile phones and empty ink cartridges is donated to charities. Jamie Rae, chief executive of The Recycling Appeal... [23 Dec 2004]
Techies hamstrung by bosses on Freedom of Information
News Despite the mammoth task of dragging up data on everything from recycling to council tax to planning applications, all within a short time frame - coupled with the potential penalties - many government IT departments don't feel they're being... [18 Oct 2004]
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