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RSS landfillCheat Sheet: The WEEE Directive
Cheat Sheet Every year around 1.5 million PCs find their way into landfill sites. The WEEE Directive? Surely you're taking the pi. Not at all - this has nothing to do with euphemism, it stands for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. [29 Oct 2004]
Government endorses open source
The OGC also highlights that it believes using open source can even be good for the environment as it would lead to less hardware being produced and fewer old machines ending up in landfill. The UK government seems to be warming to open source. [28 Oct 2004]
Open source gets thumbs-up - new government report
News The OGC also highlights that it believes using open source can even be good for the environment as it would lead to less hardware being produced and fewer old machines ending up in landfill. The UK government seems to be warming to open source. [28 Oct 2004]
Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT
Comment Large volumes of clean water are used in the production of circuit boards, and much hardware finishes up in landfill sites only a few years after it comes off the production line. But are we, asks Martin Brampton, being a more than little naïve? [14 Sep 2004]
Hardware recycling bill to increase IT costs by 10 per cent
News While the majority of senior IT professionals questioned agreed that more should be done to reduce the huge quantities of technology equipment being dumped in landfill sites, a survey from UK office equipment manufacturer Brother has revealed that... [06 Aug 2004]
5 years ago: UK firms warned of Y2K eco-nightmare
News Companies' fondness for dumping old equipment in landfill instead of recycling or reusing it has attracted the ire of the folks in Whitehall. 06.05.1999: The UK Environment Agency has warned of a possible environmental disaster if firms do not... [06 May 2004]
Cut back on landfill and help a heart
News The British Heart Foundation is calling on computer users at work and at home to "put their heart into recycling" and give the society the benefit of reusing printer cartridges. Business users can register with BHF partner LaserXchange and have... [09 Mar 2004]
Got any old kit? Then do your bit for charity
News According to Computer Aid International, each year nearly 1.5 million PCs find their way into landfill sites. Computer Aid International has launched its latest appeal for second-hand PCs as it continues to provide refurbished hardware to bridge... [03 Feb 2004]
What do you do with your old and obsolete PCs?
News Sending old hardware to landfill or dumping it in a skip to be disposed of by light-fingered locals is still a popular option. Despite looming EC legislation set to outlaw illegal dumping of IT equipment, UK businesses are still ignoring their... [08 Jul 2003]
PC recycling: Here's what we should do...
News It seems everybody knows it needs to be done - with millions of obsolete boxes ending up in landfill sites each year - but 'how? Last week we addressed the issue of PC recycling. is the question yet to be answered. [28 Apr 2003]
Can the beige box ever be a green box?
Comment But can you trust them not to dump it in a landfill site? Estimates suggest that by 2004 there may be more than 300 million obsolete machines in the US alone - and at least 70 million of those are destined to end up in landfill sites. [23 Apr 2003]
Dell ups its green credentials
News The company will reveal how the components from recycled computers are used, allowing people to find out, for example, whether they were reused or put into a landfill. Dell Computer has long trumpeted the number of PCs it ships to customers. [09 Apr 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Throw away culture
Comment Old computer equipment is being discarded at a phenomenal rate, and has become a significant part of an unmanageable amount of landfill. Or is that we're simply comfortable with the rate of replacement in the industry, asks Martin Brampton. [04 Feb 2003]
Mobile makers sign up for recycling
News Recycling the phones means that rather than simply throwing them into landfill sites, the handsets - which include precious metals such as platinum and silver, as well as dangerous elements such as lithium and in some cases cadmium - are carefully... [20 Dec 2002]
Mobile phone firms make recycling pledge
News In the past the disposal of phones and similar products in landfill has been a source of great environmentalist concern. Mobile phone firms have agreed to help customers dispose of old handsets in an environmentally friendly way as part of a push... [13 Dec 2002]
