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Only one in 10 Brits recycle old mobiles
News Just one in 10 people in the UK recycle their old mobile phones. 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. [09 Jul 2008]
UK corporates criticised for failing to recycle IT equipment
News UK corporates are failing to take IT hardware recycling seriously, and it could put them the wrong side of the law according to a report published this morning. The survey - conducted by research agency Ronin on behalf of ICL - found a huge... [28 Oct 1999]
Gartner warns 'recycle... with caution'
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]
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 state court by the software... [11 Aug 2005]
Employers ignore recycling
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]
Chip and bin to combat climate change?
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]
Eircom 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 such actions, the WEEE Directive, is not yet law. [21 Dec 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 environmentally oriented mutual... [22 Apr 2005]
UK gadget fans hoard £5bn of high-tech toys
News Willmore said the responsibility for disposing of gadgets and consumer electronics must lie primarily with retailers and manufacturers, but added "as far as possible you should do what you can as a consumer to recycle wherever possible". [16 Aug 2002]
'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 federal prisoners to... [10 Jan 2003]
EU compulsory recycling laws a step nearer
News Manufacturers of electronic equipment, including PCs, will be forced to collect and recycle their old kit, under proposed EU guidelines. Jurgen Trittin, EU Environment Minister for Luxembourg, wishes to implement electronic scrap guidelines in... [08 Jun 2001]
PCs: the environmental cost
News Obsolete computers from the west are causing an ecological disaster in developing countries, despite schemes encouraging consumers to recycle them. A report by a coalition of US environmental groups has found that up to 80 per cent of PCs brought... [25 Feb 2002]
How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide
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]
Hacker hidey-hole found in Symantec product
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]
'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 businesses dispose of their... [27 Jul 2004]
