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RSS recycle in newsEircom trumpets PC recycling success
News EDS worked with the recycler, Indaver-Rehab Recycle, to take the equipment apart and recycle the component parts. Eircom has completed a hardware recycling effort while in the UK legislation mandating... [21 Dec 2005]
Google calls in legal heavies for Microsoft fight
News Google has claimed Lee is "not a search expert" and described him as peripheral to Microsoft's business in China - though a document Microsoft said it found in the recycle bin of one of Lee's computers indicates Google... [25 Aug 2005]
Binned Google doc is 'smoking gun', says Microsoft
News Microsoft says it has found a potentially important document in its case against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and Google in the "recycle bin" of one of Lee's computers. According to papers filed with a Washington... [11 Aug 2005]
UK firms squander nearly five million tonnes of paper per year
News Make sure recycling bins are close to people's desks, so it's easier to recycle paper than throw it away. The idea of the paperless office is a long way off becoming a reality, with UK workers churning their way through... [24 Jun 2005]
Jobs annoyed at criticism of not-so-green Apple
News We think $30 is a reasonable price to charge," he said, pointing out that Dell charges about $20 to recycle a complete PC system and Hewlett-Packard charges about $40. Rachel Gibson, who was speaking on behalf of an... [22 Apr 2005]
UK thumbs its nose at EU tech deadline
News The directive states that each member state will be expected to recover and recycle at least 4kg of that each year. An EU directive on how businesses should get rid of their old PCs has been ignored by 24 out of 25... [18 Aug 2004]
'Don't dump your defunct desktop' diktat delayed
News The European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive instructs all businesses to recycle old IT and telecoms equipment or make sure it's disposed of safely. New European legislation that governs how... [27 Jul 2004]
HP to shift one billion pounds of its waste
News HP said the higher target will be met by reaching out to more customers and creating new, more convenient ways for consumers to return and recycle used or unwanted electronic equipment in an environmentally friendly manner. [09 Jul 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... [09 Mar 2004]
Got any old kit? Then do your bit for charity
News Industry experts have expressed concerns that the UK does not have an infrastructure to cope with the need to recycle millions of PCs once the new law is introduced. Computer Aid International has launched its latest... [03 Feb 2004]
Dell targets UK printer market
News The printers prompt users when to order replacement cartridges and Dell has established a programme to recycle toner cartridges where customers send used cartridges back to the company in the pre-paid postage package... [29 Sep 2003]
PC recycling: Here's what we should do...
News By all means encourage manufacturers to make their goods easier to recycle, but there seems to me little point in making the manufacturer responsible for their disposal. Last week we addressed the issue of PC recycling. [28 Apr 2003]
Dell: PCs still rule the roost
News We're being fairly proactive in helping consumers recycle those items, donate them or auction them," he said. The PC still rules, insists Dell Computer founder Michael Dell. He asserted the primacy of the PC as a digital... [10 Jan 2003]
'Poisonous' US lagging on high-tech environmentalism
News Some of the protesters were dressed as prison inmates to protest Dell's use of prison labour to recycle laptops and personal computers. Dell, the top computer producer in the US, has a contract with UNICOR, which employs... [10 Jan 2003]
Mobile makers sign up for recycling
News In the UK, all five network operators are already involved in one scheme, called Fonebak, which aims to reuse or recycle the UK's stockpile of phones. Mobile phone manufacturers have signed a declaration to tackle the... [20 Dec 2002]
