items tagged with Recycling
Canberra computer recycling day looms
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2009-10-01 01:03:38
Canberra residents will soon have an opportunity to responsibly dispose of unwanted computer equipment. Dell and the Australian National University are organising another recycling day.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2009-10-01 01:03:38
Canberra residents will soon have an opportunity to responsibly dispose of unwanted computer equipment. Dell and the Australian National University are organising another recycling day.
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HP takes back more e-waste
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2009-07-28 03:06:22
One common criticism of IT vendors is that they don't provide a take-back service for hardware that has reached the end of its useful life. HP is now offering such a facility to its Australian consumer and small business customers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2009-07-28 03:06:22
One common criticism of IT vendors is that they don't provide a take-back service for hardware that has reached the end of its useful life. HP is now offering such a facility to its Australian consumer and small business customers.
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Visy chooses Telstra for comms and cloud
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Outsourcing
2009-07-06 19:53:11
Telstra has received a $50 million contract covering communications and a cloud computing platform placed by packaging and recycling giant Visy.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Outsourcing
2009-07-06 19:53:11
Telstra has received a $50 million contract covering communications and a cloud computing platform placed by packaging and recycling giant Visy.
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Did you know that 80% of ocean trash is plastics?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-06-17 08:47:32
According to the UN Environment Programme, 80% of the trash taken from Earth’s oceans consists of plastics such as shopping bags and drinking bottles. The report calls thin film plastic bags "pointless." In other words, we don't need them anymore: get rid of them with a worldwide ban!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2009-06-17 08:47:32
According to the UN Environment Programme, 80% of the trash taken from Earth’s oceans consists of plastics such as shopping bags and drinking bottles. The report calls thin film plastic bags "pointless." In other words, we don't need them anymore: get rid of them with a worldwide ban!
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Water 'pee-cycling' begins on space station
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-05-20 20:27:05
The International Space Station's new water recycling system has proved fit for human consumption and astronauts have been cleared to consume the water it produces.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-05-20 20:27:05
The International Space Station's new water recycling system has proved fit for human consumption and astronauts have been cleared to consume the water it produces.
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Can Australian ever “waste” the E-Waste problem?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 18:21:45
In mobster parlance, to “waste” something is to get rid of it, hence the headline. Yet the question is vital, with millions of technological products currently going into landfill and polluting the earth for generations to come, with Australia’s politicians predictably “wasting” time dithering on not delivering a solution. The “TEC” demands action – now!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-11 18:21:45
In mobster parlance, to “waste” something is to get rid of it, hence the headline. Yet the question is vital, with millions of technological products currently going into landfill and polluting the earth for generations to come, with Australia’s politicians predictably “wasting” time dithering on not delivering a solution. The “TEC” demands action – now!
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Second life for printer cartridges
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-11-11 19:24:23
It's National Recycling Week. What happens to those ink and toner cartridges that you put in the Planet Ark boxes?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-11-11 19:24:23
It's National Recycling Week. What happens to those ink and toner cartridges that you put in the Planet Ark boxes?
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When is a cargo container not a cargo container? When it’s a house!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-11-07 11:48:36
With the global recession upon us, many unused shipping (cargo) containers are just sitting around on waterfront docks all over the world. Because of this surplus of empty containers, some industrious architects and builders are using them to build houses and other such “green” based projects.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-11-07 11:48:36
With the global recession upon us, many unused shipping (cargo) containers are just sitting around on waterfront docks all over the world. Because of this surplus of empty containers, some industrious architects and builders are using them to build houses and other such “green” based projects.
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New iPods make Apple greener, but not green enough for Greenpeace
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-09-10 20:02:11
Greenpeace has praised Apple for eliminating certain harmful chemicals from the latest iPods. That's quite a turnaround for the organisation that previously criticised Apple not for its deeds but for a lack of words.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-09-10 20:02:11
Greenpeace has praised Apple for eliminating certain harmful chemicals from the latest iPods. That's quite a turnaround for the organisation that previously criticised Apple not for its deeds but for a lack of words.
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How much would you pay to sit on a PlayStation 2?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-09-02 14:36:06
In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-09-02 14:36:06
In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...
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D-Link claims 98 percent recyclability
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-08-26 02:47:22
While the IT industry makes various efforts to improve its green credentials through measures including reduced energy consumption and the reduction or even elimination of certain hazardous substances, the proper disposal of equipment when it reaches the end of its life can be a thorny point. D-Link thinks it has an answer.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-08-26 02:47:22
While the IT industry makes various efforts to improve its green credentials through measures including reduced energy consumption and the reduction or even elimination of certain hazardous substances, the proper disposal of equipment when it reaches the end of its life can be a thorny point. D-Link thinks it has an answer.
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Scouts recycle Telstra's old solar panels
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy generation
2008-08-01 02:32:04
Scouts Australia has received an environmentally sound 100th anniversary gift - doubly so, as the 500 solar panels and 245 regulators presented by Telstra are recycled equipment.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy generation
2008-08-01 02:32:04
Scouts Australia has received an environmentally sound 100th anniversary gift - doubly so, as the 500 solar panels and 245 regulators presented by Telstra are recycled equipment.
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Recycling? Wassat? Say numpty UK mobile phone users
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-07-08 16:56:54
Only one in ten mobile phone users in the UK recycle their old handsets, and nearly a fifth are unaware it is even possible, according to the results of research published today by Nokia. That, unfortunately, is the good news!
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-07-08 16:56:54
Only one in ten mobile phone users in the UK recycle their old handsets, and nearly a fifth are unaware it is even possible, according to the results of research published today by Nokia. That, unfortunately, is the good news!
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1 Billion PCs but 180 million will be dumped this year
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-06-23 18:12:45
New Gartner report says that the number of installed PCs globally has gone past the 1 billion units figure, and is heading for 2 billion by 2014. Worryingly though, 180 million PCs will be replaced this year, 35 million in landfill with no thought for the environmental impact.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-06-23 18:12:45
New Gartner report says that the number of installed PCs globally has gone past the 1 billion units figure, and is heading for 2 billion by 2014. Worryingly though, 180 million PCs will be replaced this year, 35 million in landfill with no thought for the environmental impact.
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