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News It is aiming to recycle 30 per cent of its waste and plans to extend the life of PCs beyond three years. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing.
[09 May 2008]
News David Supple, head of IT, marketing and creative services for Ecotec research and consulting, said: "We pay for all equipment to be recycled - it does help us to keep a smaller equipment store, but I do have ongoing concerns about what happens to...
[18 Feb 2008]
News The so called 'chip and bin' scheme could see chips put in bins to collect data on the weight of household rubbish in order to encourage people to recycle more and throw away less. The legislation will spell out what a local authority has to do...
[31 Oct 2007]
News With the long-awaited Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive coming into play this year to encourage companies to recycle and reuse their old IT equipment - some companies are sending their PCs to developing countries in a bid...
[15 Oct 2007]
News The WEEE Directive aims to encourage companies to recycle and reuse their old IT equipment. Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year.
[12 Oct 2007]
News The directive makes producers of new tech equipment responsible for paying to recycle or safely dispose of products once they are no longer in use. Vodafone is making significant inroads into becoming a more green and environmentally responsible...
[29 Jun 2007]
News With the long-awaited WEEE Directive rolling into full effect later this year - forcing all businesses to address the ways in which they dispose of electrical equipment - companies are being reminded of the option to recycle PCs in the developing...
[12 Feb 2007]
News It can be really easy to pass on the old machine to be reused, and if it's beyond use, to recycle it," Shadbolt said. The Green Party has claimed Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in...
[30 Jan 2007]
News Whitehall is proposing the introduction of a network of take-back facilities where consumers can return old equipment as well as the creation of authorised treatment centres to recycle the kit and monitor WEEE levels - checking how much hardware...
[25 Jul 2006]
News Despite a growing awareness of the need for private and public sector organisations to operate in an environmentally friendly manner few companies are still doing enough to recycle everything they should - from paper to IT hardware.
[24 Mar 2006]
News Organisations facing up to the issue of stricter environmental legislation and guidelines have been warned not to undermine their business in a rushed attempt to 'go green'. Analyst house Gartner has produced a report warning businesses of the...
[16 Mar 2006]
News An education centre for teaching school trips about green issues even includes a wormery for staff to recycle their food waste. The company is also looking to standardise on plastic use in order to build machines which are easier to recycle - the...
[16 Mar 2006]
News In the PC-tuning application, a feature called the Norton Protected Recycle Bin creates a hidden directory on Windows systems. Symantec has released an update to its popular Norton SystemWorks to fix a security problem that could be abused by cyber...
[12 Jan 2006]
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 such actions, the WEEE Directive, is not yet law.
[21 Dec 2005]
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 anticipated a possible...
[25 Aug 2005]
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 state court by the software...
[11 Aug 2005]
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 4.6 million tonnes of waste...
[24 Jun 2005]
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 environmentally oriented mutual...
[22 Apr 2005]
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 European member states.
[18 Aug 2004]
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 businesses dispose of their...
[27 Jul 2004]
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