landfill
RSS landfillGreens slam Vista 'landfill effect'
News The Green Party has claimed Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites. PCs contain many toxic components, so if they end up in a landfill we are... [30 Jan 2007]
Help us to bridge the digital divide
News The work of Computer Aid also ensures PCs, which might otherwise end up in landfill, remain in commission and provide years of worthwhile use. A team of three from CNET Networks UK, publisher of silicon.com, will later this week be travelling to... [29 Jan 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Recycling is rubbish
Comment They vigorously defend the economics and right-mindedness of recycling but when confronted with the real facts, they always collapse back to the landfill argument: we can't keep digging holes. Written in the lobby of a Vancouver hotel and... [23 Jan 2007]
Leader: What will WEEE mean?
Leader While fewer PCs should therefore end up in landfill we suspect it will be the cost of making that happen which becomes buried instead. So the WEEE Directive is finally limping into effect in the UK after years of delays, procrastination and... [03 Jan 2007]
Will's Web Watch: To eBay or to FreeBay?
Comment Although the prime objective of the group behind the service is to keep items of furniture out of landfill, there's no reason why it shouldn't be seen as an alternative to auction sites. Groups format of the Freecycle service and are running their... [02 Jan 2007]
Power-hungry IT industry is "unsustainable"
News Environmental pressure will also force organisations to act, with data centres wasting almost two-thirds of the energy they use to cool equipment, and three-quarters of the 512 million PCs that will be disposed of in the next five years ending up... [07 Nov 2006]
Earthquake model predicts Silicon Valley's future
News The Santa Cruz, California, area, which juts up against a mountain range, and the neighbourhoods built on landfill in San Francisco typically suffer significant damage in a San Andreas quake. A new model re-creating a devastating San Francisco... [29 Mar 2006]
Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?
News He says: "Paper waste is probably the biggest item in any company's landfill and waste costs. And if things improve, if landfill levels of toxins, hazardous substances, heavy metals and plastics decrease, and boxes on environmental and corporate... [16 Mar 2006]
Ricoh throws down the green gauntlet
News By 2007 the company pledges that no Ricoh equipment will go to landfill. Printer giant Ricoh is the latest company to go to pains to outline the work it is doing to make its business environmentally friendly, admitting that for a company in the... [01 Feb 2006]
Dell boasts of lead in recycling
News The ticking environmental time bomb of old monitors, PCs and printers finding their way into landfill inspired the EU to draft the long-delayed Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) but Josh Claman, UK head of Dell, said his... [24 Jan 2006]
Eircom trumpets PC recycling success
News This meant 95 per cent of the hardware was recycled and only five per cent ended up in landfill, according to EDS country manager Paschal Naylor. Eircom has completed a hardware recycling effort while in the UK legislation mandating such actions... [21 Dec 2005]
Hazardous IT waste warning issued
News Businesses that produce any waste classified as hazardous will have to ensure they discuss with their waste contractor or landfill operator the best method for the disposal of hazardous material. The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural... [27 Jun 2005]
Recycled robo-cop takes aim at tech industry waste
News It weighs seven tonnes and represents the average amount of technology used by a single person in a lifetime - 90 per cent of which will end up in a landfill or be incinerated, instead of being reused or recycled. [28 Apr 2005]
Charity hits back at 'destroy your PC' claims
News Dr Andrew Blyth from Glamorgan University's computer science department told silicon.com the reason behind the research was an attempt to publicise the need to do more to ensure data is destroyed before it is passed elsewhere - be it a charity, a... [18 Feb 2005]
Statim Standardises on Star for Unmanned Weighbridges
White Paper Used in hundreds of weighbridges in quarries and landfill sites across the UK and Ireland as well as internationally, the Statim computerised weighing and control solutions enable site drivers to collect sales dockets detailing every element of... [18 Feb 2005]
