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Only one in 10 Brits recycle old mobiles
News And while only nine per cent of Brits recycle these old phones, it's not all bad news as just three per cent of dud devices end up in landfill. Just one in 10 people in the UK recycle their old mobile phones. [09 Jul 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News It wants to cut the amount of UK waste sent to landfill by six per cent and over the past year has already increased the amount of waste it recycles by four per cent. BT will rely on wind farms to produce a quarter of its UK power by 2016 as part... [03 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis
Comment Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000 years rotting in landfill. So I decided to have a go at Freecycling it instead, which to my surprise threw up some interesting questions about... [01 Apr 2008]
Millions of Britain's PCs going to waste
News Millions of serviceable computers in the UK end up in landfill rather than being recycled, a study has claimed. The research, sponsored by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), found that 12.5 million unwanted PCs and laptops have not been re-used or... [10 Mar 2008]
Marks & Spencer hands £19m IT deal to Computacenter
News As well as a software management role, Computacenter will take on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliant asset disposal for the retailer, guaranteeing no obsolete IT will go into landfill sites. [12 Dec 2007]
Six ways HP helps IT support environmental initiatives
White Paper How the Planet Partners ink cartridge recycling program has kept 112 million HP LaserJet and HP inkjet print cartridges out of the landfill since 1991 Many companies have been talking about being green lately, but HP's been quietly doing something... [27 Nov 2007]
Chip and bin to combat climate change?
News According to government figures, landfill is responsible for three per cent of the UK's total CO2 emissions. Chips in wheelie bins could be used to help the UK meet targets to reduce its CO2 emissions. [31 Oct 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: How green is your phone?
Comment O2 crowed that their 24 month contract was all with climate change in mind - fewer handsets produced, fewer in landfill, fewer emissions. Like any massive corporation worth its salt, handset manufacturers and telecoms kit makers are falling over... [14 May 2007]
Leader: Wise up to PC recycling
Leader Many PCs still end up in landfill or get broken down in more environmentally friendly ways simply because they are deemed obsolete by our standards - and that is shameful.silicon.com would encourage any business to look into whether it can donate... [12 Feb 2007]
Photos: How old PCs can bridge the digital divide
Photo Martins explains that many components, such as metals from a motherboard, can be re-used and says Kenya's growing population of skilled electricians is finding uses for many power supply units, cables and wiring which might otherwise have been... [12 Feb 2007]
How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide
News For companies in the UK this can mean seeking out a charity such as Computer Aid and ensuring PCs can be put to good use, rather than simply chucking them in a skip to end up in landfill. Last month the Green Party also slammed the landfill effect... [12 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up The more sandal-inclined end of the political spectrum has raised concerns about the landfill effect of Vista and has blamed Microsoft's operating system for forcing consumers to ditch IT equipment in favour of more whiz-bang models which can cope... [02 Feb 2007]
Greens 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]
