Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
What a pity the industry as a whole can't get its act together and come up with a workable scheme expeditiously. At the rate Byteback is progressing it will be 2010 before it goes national and even then, who knows how far you'll have to travel to drop off your old computer.
Meanwhile nationwide recycling company, Sims Group, will accept old IT equipment at its collection depots: it's just a matter of making a phone call to find out the nearest location and dropping the stuff off. The company boasts that "we are uniquely positioned to offer real environmental solutions by recycling in-house the commodities released from e-waste. Our unique ability to recycle leaded glass, a known environmental hazard from computer monitors and televisions is second to none and delivers a total glass recovery rate in excess of 99 percent."
Seems like a lot of the pieces are in place, yet it is taking an awful long time to come up with a workable national scheme that will embrace all old equipment, regardless of who made it."
David Bass
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