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Green Networking in the Data Center
White Paper In response to this growing need, governmental agencies around the world are working to define and enforce regulations to help mitigate the inefficient use of natural resources and reduce hazardous waste... [30 Aug 2009]
How tech can make us greener
Comment Despite controls on hazardous waste (as dicatated in the RoHS Directive) and controls on the disposal of electronic waste goods (as legislated in the WEEE Directive), this is a growing... [24 May 2007]
Apple vows to be "greener"
News Previously it has relied on fluorescent lamps and liquid crystal displays that contain hazardous substances such as arsenic and mercury, which can leech out into the environment. Still, Greenpeace said this move did not... [03 May 2007]
Greenpeace clashes with Apple over toxic waste
News The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which limits the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, went into force in the UK on the 1 July and... [29 Aug 2006]
The Value of Green - A Case Study of Hewlett-Packard's Social and Environmental Responsibility Strategies in the Supply Chain
White Paper In the electronics industry, this has been hooked to a series of new regulations that address the hazardous materials built into products (such as RoHS, or Restriction on Hazardous Substances) and the... [25 Jul 2006]
Photos: Inside Ricoh's 'Green Centre'
Photo Toner, although now far from hazardous, is a perennial headache for companies looking to be thorough in their approach to recycling. Ricoh's Green Centre includes an education facility where children on school trips are... [16 Mar 2006]
Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?
News And if things improve, if landfill levels of toxins, hazardous substances, heavy metals and plastics decrease, and boxes on environmental and corporate and social responsibility charters are ticked then who really cares? [16 Mar 2006]
Environment Agency cleans up with CRM
Case Study Since May this year the call centre has also processed the registration of 180,000 producers of hazardous waste. Enquiry calls from the public can be about anything to do with the environment - from... [29 Sep 2005]
Greenpeace slams toxic tech industry
News Large amounts of electrical waste and electronic goods are shipped, often illegally, to poor or developing countries to be recycled by local inhabitants who are usually ill-equipped to handle hazardous... [19 Aug 2005]
Hazardous IT waste warning issued
News The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is warning companies disposing of redundant IT equipment such as computer monitors that they may find themselves falling foul of new hazardous... [27 Jun 2005]
Department of Defense Green Procurement Strategy
White Paper The purpose of the GPP is to enhance and sustain mission readiness through cost effective acquisition that achieves compliance and reduces resource consumption and solid and hazardous waste generation. [21 Jun 2005]
Cheat Sheet: The WEEE Directive
Cheat Sheet They should either be recycled component by component, ensuring any toxic or hazardous elements are 'made safe' - such as heavy metals. Not at all - this has nothing to do with euphemism, it stands for the... [29 Oct 2004]
Lead-free motherboards make greener PCs
News VIA says that its lead-free manufacturing processes comply with WEEE, and also with the Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (ROHS), which is a second EU directive The Europe Union's Waste Electrical and... [23 Apr 2004]
Lexmark reveals new SME printing range
News We've got to start designing our products now so they break down more easily, so parts can be recycled and so we have virtually no hazardous materials in them," he said. Another issue that will be a priority for Lexmark... [12 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Throw away culture
Comment This typically involves poor people engaging in hazardous destruction operations that create large quantities of decidedly unpleasant waste which is just abandoned. After all, if people can think up new... [04 Feb 2003]
