Sims Recycling Solutions, the world’s largest electrical and electronics recovery and recycling company, says the new Apple iPad is not a friend of the environment. Sims Recycling is the world's largest electronics recycling company, handling over 475,000 tonnes of e-waste annually in over 50 locations wo... |
16 March 2012
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Tons of no-longer-needed electronics end up in landfills every year. However, scientists from University of Illinois think they have found a key to a sustainable clean future, represented by self-healing electronics.
The team strongly believes that a broken item will be able to work at its entire capacity once again... |
27 December 2011
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Holidays are usually great occasions to waste more than we actually consume. To make sure that landfills will stay clean during this time of the year, NRDC offers a great guide for a minimal amount of holiday waste.
NRDC officials indicate that almost everything can be reused or recycled and leftovers do not make a... |
27 December 2011
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Contemporary Art represents a continued source of surprises, especially when it reflects the creativity of environmentally-friendly artists, who put old above new by transforming recycled materials into amazing one-of-a-kind masterpieces. This time, some of them decided to tackle e-waste, a frequent important compo... |
25 November 2011
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For most of the developed countries, Ghana represents nothing more than an enormous landfill where electronics arrive form Europe and North America.Our paperless offices save a few forests, but imply other risks, quite common in our modern society. Toxic compounds coming from out-of-fashion electronics which we no lo... |
5 November 2011
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A newly released study from the International Data Corporation (IDC) is painting a clear picture of where the U.S. electronics recycling industry is standing and where it is heading to.
According to the report, which is supposedly the most comprehensive of its kind ever conducted in the United States, the industry... |
7 October 2011
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With the more and more countries employing legislation for e-waste recycling, IT companies have to find ways to comply, including with Europe’s WEEE directive. Failure to meet the requirements could led to costly fees, competitive disadvantage or brand damage.Panasonic is one of the manufacturers aware of the n... |
27 September 2011
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Another brave effort on the part of Greenpeace has revealed the fact that the United Kingdom is in contradiction with European norms, as far as disposing of e-waste goes. Activists from the group mounted a GPS tracking device in an old TV set, which they then took to a recycling site. The chip showed that the apparat... |
20 February 2009
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Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one can reduce computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%, as a government report informs.In late 2004, an UK government study reported that running a Linux distribution instead of Microsoft's Windows on one's computer can bring some significant g... |
10 December 2007
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