November 27, 2008
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Waste & Recycling Newsletter November 27, 2008 |
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Less than half of second hand PCs will find new home, say industry analysts
Less than half of the PCs that are retired each year will find a second home, according to a new report from IT industry analysts Gartner. The study found that just 44 per cent of 197 million PCs that were retired in 2007 were re-used, while only one in five found their way to developing markets, despite strong demand from those economies for second hand PCs. The research will reignite fears that many of the PCs that are donated or sold for re-use are instead being broken up, or even illegally shipped to scrap yards in the developing world. Ensuring IT equipment is re-used is widely regarded ... |
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Putting a green cap on garbage dumps
Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as putrescible waste decays. Growing plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as `Phytocapping`, could reduce the production and release of these gases, according to Australian scientists writing in a forthcoming issue of International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. Despite legislative pressures to reduce landfill use, in certain parts of the world it remains the most economical and simplest method of waste disposal. Biodegradation of organic matter in a landfill site occurs ... |
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