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Reasons for Recycling electronic gadgets like PC’s
May 5, 2013 | 
Author Obsolete computers or other electronics are a valuable source for secondary raw materials, if treated properly; if not treated properly, they are a source of toxins and carcinogens. Rapid technology change, low initial cost, and even planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-growing surplus of computer or other electronic components around the globe. Technical solutions are available, but in most cases a legal framework, a collection system, logistics, and other services need to be implemented before a technical solution can be applied. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, an estimated 30 to 40 million surplus PCs, which it classifies under the term “hazardous household waste”, will be ready for end-of-life management in each of the next few years. It is estimated that 75% of all personal computers ever sold are now surplus electronics.
Many materials used in the construction of computer hardware can be recovered in the recycling process for use in future production. Reuse of tin, silicon, iron, aluminum, and a variety of plastics — all present in bulk in computers or other electronics — can reduce the costs of constructing new systems. In addition, components frequently contain copper, gold, and other materials valuable enough to reclaim in their own right.
A major computer or electronic recycling concern is export of waste to countries with lower environmental standards. Companies may find it cost-effective in the short term to sell outdated computers to less developed countries with lax regulations. It is commonly believed that a majority of surplus laptops are routed to developing nations as “dumping grounds for e-waste”. The high value of working and reusable laptops, computers, and components (e.g., RAM) can help pay the cost of transportation for a large number of worthless “commodities”. Broken monitors, obsolete circuit boards, and short-circuited transistors are difficult to spot in a containerload of used electronics.
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New Food Recycling Plant
Scotland has seen a new state-of-the-art food waste plant opened near Glasgow. The AD plant will recycle food waste into renewable energy.
The plant was opened at Deerdykes, Cumbernauld. It will be operated by Scottish Water Horizons, and, too date, is the largest organics recycling facility in Scotland and offers food waste producers an alternative solution to landfill. Under the Zero Waste Scotland Plan foodwaste should no longer be going to landfill, this new facility will help to achieve this.
The new facility can recycle 30,000 tonnes of food waste a year, which can be converted into 8,000 megawatt hours of energy each year, enough to power up to 2,000 homes.
The plant also produces heat which could be used in district heating schemes for local homes and businesses.
It also creates nutrient rich digestate which can be used as a fertiliser to improve soil, reducing the need for chemical fertilizers, which have a significant environmental impact in the manufacturing process.
Chris Banks, Scottish Water’s Commercial Director and Chairman of Horizons, said: “This new plant shows we’re leading the way not just on renewable energy but in helping Scotland towards its ambition of zero waste.”
Scotland’s Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead praised the company for being a leader in organic recycling and renewable energy. He said: “As part of our Zero Waste Plan, we aim to recycle 70 per cent of all waste by 2025, with just five per cent landfilled.
“This is a greatly impressive facility and I congratulate Horizons Environment for being at the forefront of organic recycling and renewable energy.”
It has to be said that Anaerobic digestion has a huge role to play in creating a zero waste economy in Scotland, generating jobs and revenue from materials which we have always thought of as waste.
The Zero Waste Plan is clear that organic waste, from food and other sources, should be recycled back into useful products. It’s amazing why we haven’t done this before.
Plans are still being considered for a similar site at Stonehouse in Lanarkshire by South Lanarkshire Council.
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Recycling: It Really Is Simple, Try It
There is actually a lot of things that we can recycle: Electrical & Electronic equipment, Water, Energy, Paper, Metal, Aluminium Cans, Glass, Plastic, Styrofoam, Steel, & even junk mail. All of these things, as you know, could end up in a landfill or even worse, in the sea.
The basics of Recycling is to gather items that have been used and reprocess. Allowing them to be used againand again; simple?
Of course you don’t do this yourself, or could you? When we recycle, pretty much means that energy is saved. When a manufacturing company decides to make new stuff out of old stuff, it saves a lot of energy. A good example of this would be the recycling of cardboard, used in hospital bedpans for example; all of the carboard in the bedpans is recycled & can be recycled again.
By Recycling you not only make this planet a better place to live, but also reduce pollution & improve environmental conditions. By simply recycling as much as we can, you help prevent the global climate change, reduce greenhouse gases and cut the amount of fuel used!
By doing all this, it leads to us and companies saving natural resources. For example: If the all the tabloid newspapers were to recycle all of the newspapers that they print every single day, there wouldn’t be the need to cut & kill a thousand trees a day.
Trees in different rain forests are being cut down at an alarming rate, according to some researchers we could see no more trees left in a few years time, though how accurate that statement is I do not know, but it stands to reason that if you continue to take more than you put back eventually you will be left with nothing. This is the same with all fossil fuels as well.
Not only are you helping the world, but you’re saving money!
It is expensive to start production on new products with new materials, manufacturers are going to want that money reimbursed so they can continue making the expensive products. When you buy things that are recycled, it’s obviously cheaper to make, though the marketeers of the large manufacturers would have us believe otherwise, greenwashing at it’s worst! In effect we should be able to buy recycled goods for a low price. Even when you think about it, all the waste & rubbish that isn’t recycled is taking up space in landfills, which are fast becoming full.
Whatever you may think about recycling, be it, in your opinion, another “hippie” movement, at be motivated to do your part, the alternatives, fines for not recycling and destruction of our world as we know it, it unthinkable. No One is saying you have to become obsessed with it, all that is being suggested is that every little bit you can do is a step in the right direction. The Earth has provided a place to live, grow food, provide raw materials, it’s our turn to think and act responsibly to ensure it continues to do so for future generations.
Recycling is simple, whether it be at home or in the office. Take a look around and look at how much waste that is “thrown” in the bin. Almost all office waste can be recycled simply, it just needs someone like you to get the ball rolling and it won’t just be the environment that benefits.
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Recycling: How to encourage your colleagues
How do you encourage recycling in your workplace? Recycling is someone else’s job, isn’t it? Why do we have such an aversion to recycling in the office?
Remeber when the kids were young, How did you motivate the children to eat their greens? You made it interesting!
In essence, many office employees have the same mentality when it comes to things that don’t seem to be their job, or require too much time. If you’re trying to get your company to recycle more, here are some ideas you might want to try.
Instead of just hitting them with the facts as to why recycling is great, try using some examples. The begining is a great place to start. Many people think that waste just affects the land, is someone else’s problem and doesn’t afftect them, how wrong can they be?
If you’re very creative, try making something out of recycled material. Art is a classic example. If you’ve ever visited new eco-friendly parks or other major parks around the world, you will see a myriad of sculptures that have been put together with scrap metal. No need to be artistic at heart, but simple art created out of recycled material is a great way to raise money and awareness for the need to recycle.
A simple business, home or otherwise, can be had from food waste, vermiculture, worms to you and me, recycle food waste by composting using worms, sell the worms (they breed at an incredible rate) to fishing enthusiasts, use the compost to grow vegetables for sale or own use.
Few things are as effective as petitions. Don’t ask people to petition the government to do something, rather petition them to recycle a certain percent of their waste weekly, and provide the numbers. Many people are overwhelmed by the demands of recycling unless it is made simple. Instead of asking them to recycle every piece of plastic, ask them to recycle just 10% of their plastic to begin with, and show the mathematical calculations of what could be saved if they did.
Almost everyone will agree that charity organizations do an awesome work. Incorporate this idea in your effort. Get people/organizations to sponsor charity work. For example, get promises from them to donate a certain amount of money to their favourite charity or a specific charity for every pound of waste you are able to recycle. Better still, donate your waste to charitable organisation, they can make money from your old cardboard and paper for example.
Last but not least, nothing works as well as facts and figures.
Many times people fail to do things because they are not aware of the facts and figures involved. Believe it or not, most people think that one person will not make a difference. You need to show them otherwise. Show them how much energy, trees, etc. they can save if they decide to recycle.
You never know you could just might grab their attention.
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Restaraunt fined for Packaging offences
A Restaurant has been fined more than £24,000 by the Environment Agency for failing to comply with packaging waste regulations.
How many Glasgow restaraunts are unaware of these regulations?
The chain was fined under the name, Gioma UK Ltd, they plead guilty to failing to register with the Environment Agency, and failing to recover and recycle packaging waste in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by purchasing Packaging Recovery Notes as provided by the Regulations.
The chain which runs 14 restaurants, asked the court to take 14 similar matters between 2000 and 2006 into consideration.
Under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations, companies which have an annual turnover in excess of £2 million and handle more than 50 tonnes of packaging per annum, must register with the Environment Agency or a compliance scheme.
Each year, the company must also provide evidence of payment for recovery and recycling of a specified proportion of its packaging. The types of packaging covered by this legislation are wood, aluminium, steel, cardboard and plastic.
The regulations are designed to make companies assess the amount of packaging they handle and, to try and limit its use. The monies raised is directly invested in the recycling industry.
Many organisations remain unaware of their responsibilities despite details being available in trade journals, through trade organisations and online.
Environment Agency spokesperson said: “The Producer Responsibility Regulations are in place to encourage a reduction in the amount of packaging used by businesses and to decrease the disposal of packaging waste to landfill.
“Although these regulations have been in place for over a decade, many businesses still remain unaware of their responsibilities. The money that Gioma (UK) Ltd has saved by not purchasing Packaging Recovery Notes would have directly supported the recycling industry.”
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Importance Of Recycling
Recycling is now becoming second nature to a lot of us and is the best way for us to have a positive impact within the area and indeed the world in which we live.
Recycling is important to both the natural environment and us.
The amount of rubbish we create is constantly increasing, why? Well it’s because of a few reasons such as:
- Increasing wealth means that people are buying more products which are now seen as disposable.
- A larger population means that there are more of us to create waste.
- New packaging and technological products are being developed, much of these products contain materials that are not biodegradable.
- Llifestyle changes, such as eating fast food, means that we create additional waste that isn’t biodegradable.
Environmental Importance
Recycling is very important as waste has a huge negative impact on the natural environment.
- Harmful chemicals and greenhouse gasses are released from rubbish in landfill sites. Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste.
- Habitat destruction and global warming are some the affects caused by deforestation. Recycling reduces the need for raw materials so that the rainforests can be preserved.
- Huge amounts of energy are used when making products from raw materials. Recycling requires much less energy and therefore helps to preserve natural resources.
Importance To People
Recycling is essential to cities around the world and to the people living in them.
- No space for waste. Our landfill sites are filling up fast, by 2020, almost all landfills in the UK will be full.
- Reduce financial expenditure in the economy. Making products from raw materials costs much more than if they were made from recycled products.
- Preserve natural resources for future generations. Recycling reduces the need for raw materials; it also uses less energy, therefore preserving natural resources for the future.
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WEEE Recycling: Data Destruction is Essential
Your company data may no longer be of value to you once you have done what you need to do with it, but it is valuable to your competitors. That is why any media, from paper to Flash memory cards, that contains business data must be thoroughly destroyed before disposal.
The risks of disposal of disks containing data that you may believe has been destroyed but has really just been lightly erased include putting yourself or your customers at risk for identity theft as well as making data available to unscrupulous individuals. Even recycling a computer to comply with WEEE recycling regulations does not include proper data destruction techniques.
These techniques include degaussing, in which magnetic patterns that conform to actual data are realigned so that the data is inaccessible and unrecoverable, shredding, which entails shredding media into very fine bits that cannot be reassembled, and software wiping, in which all HEX values on the entire volume of a disk are overwritten using special software. In the United kingdom, such software must meet Data protection Act standards to be considered effective for data destruction.
Laptops, including internal hard disk drives and other internal media storage devices, must be recycled according to WEEE regulations (EU). However, if data remains available on any part of the device before, during or after WEEE recycling procedures, it still poses a threat to your business security. Therefore, devices that hold data and are subject to WEEE recycling regulations must undergo a thorough process of data destruction before recycling should take place.
Hard drive destruction is absolutely imperative before WEEE recycling can start. This is because even when a disk drive is seemingly erased, the information on it can be recovered and made available without your knowledge. Ensuring that an expert with security cleared personnel destroys the hard drive by methods such as degaussing and shredding is the only way you can be sure that any data that was ever available on a drive that is slated for disposal can never be accessed again. Software wiping is recommended only for hard disk drives that will be reused after the data stored on them is fully destroyed.
Media tape drives are also easily accessible if they are not fully and professionally destroyed prior to disposal. Degaussing and shredding are the most recommended techniques for destruction of media tape drives.
Even CD’s and DVD’s which contain sensitive and confidential data should never be disposed of without making the data completely inaccessible. Complete physical destruction of the media through precision shredding that is offered by professional media disposal firms is the only way to ensure that data on a CD or DVD is fully inaccessible.
Flash memory cards, external memory sticks, and similar devices must also be subject to data destruction measures if they have ever held sensitive data. A specialist firm which handles data destruction should be consulted regarding such memory devices as their small size makes it very easy for them to end up in the wrong hands.
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What Happens to The Waste In Your Wheelie Bin?
Each year in Glasgow alone, millions of tonnes of waste is thrown in rubbish bins or waste bins around the home and office. All this waste has to be managed and waste management is of vital importance to ensure we are not all knee-deep in rubbish. A lot of this could be recycled instead of going to landfill, how does Glasgow recycle?
Glasgow recycles by utilising Waste management services, which are becoming increasingly more important as government’s across the globe are trying to reduce the impact of waste on the environment.
But what happens to all that rubbish that ends up in our waste and wheelie bins?
There are only really three methods for disposing of waste that we throw into our rubbish bins:
Landfill
Recycling
Incineration
And there are advantages and disadvantages in each method of waste management.
Landfills: land fills are either holes in the ground that are naturally forged such as canyons or ravines; holes forged by former industrial processes like mines or quarries; or just mounds where rubbish we place in our waste bins piles up.
Land fills are not necessarily detrimental to the environment. While they do create greenhouse gases such as methane, this is actually offering potential benefits as not only can the methane be captured to prevent it damaging the environment but also it can be used as a method of creating energy.
And while it is true that landfills can cause pollutants to enter the water table. Land fills can be covered over once used and the land can be converted into nature parks which can offset any damage the original land fill had on the environment.
Recycling: recycling is not just done at home by separating our rubbish by using a recycling bin. Much of what ends up in our conventional waste bin is now being recycled by waste management teams. And while recycling is obviously good for the environment, there are detrimental effects too. Some of our waste is exported abroad in vast quantities to be recycled but this can have harmful effects due to the carbon costs of transportation and the damage to local environment where the rubbish ends up, as often these are developing nations that have less stringent environmental rules.
Incineration: Incineration is perhaps the most environmentally unfriendly method of getting rid of the rubbish in our waste bins. Unfortunately, there are many nations that are forced to incinerate a lot of rubbish due to constraints in land space. The only alternative is to ship the rubbish abroad which is not only financially costly but also has environmental costs too.
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Glasgow| WEEE Recycling, why should we recycle WEEE?
Benefit of Recycling
Recycling is an important way for individuals and businesses to reduce the waste they generate and reduce the negative impact of that waste. Because recycling is big business in Ohio, every time you recycle, it also supports the many companies and employees doing this important work. Recycling conserves our natural resources, saves landfill space, conserves energy, and reduces water pollution, air pollution and the green house gas emissions that cause global warming. Together, Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and buying Recycled products make up a comprehensive waste and resource reduction strategy that benefits our natural world and our economy.
Saving natural resources and natural areas
Making products with recycled material slows the depletion of non-renewable resources such as metal, oil and natural gas, and reduces the encroachment of new mining and drilling operations. Conserving renewable resources through recycling also helps preserve undisturbed land and natural diversity by reducing the amount of land needed for agriculture and timber production.
Saving energy
It generally takes less energy to make products with recycled materials than virgin materials, often significantly less. For example, it takes 20 times more energy to make aluminium from bauxite ore than using recycled aluminium. Recycling one aluminium can saves enough energy to power a computer for 3 hours. Benefits of reduced energy consumption include reduced costs and reduced dependence on foreign suppliers.
Reducing pollution
Because most energy in Ohio is generated by burning fossil fuels, using less energy means generating less water and air pollution–especially the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Recycling also reduces other forms of pollution as well: Runoff from mining operations and farms, soil erosion and the toxic chemicals released when raw materials are processed.
Conserving landfill space
Everything that goes into a landfill stays there, taking up space. As waste breaks down—which can take hundreds of years—it releases the greenhouse gas methane and can emit many toxic pollutants into our water table. Keeping recyclable items out of our landfills keeps air and water cleaner, reduces the need for Ohio to build new or expanded landfills, and conserves resources by putting existing materials back to good use.
Creating industry and jobs
Recycling isn’t just good for the environment, it’s good for business. UK firms are among industry leaders in research and development of recycled-content products and mechanical and chemical systems for recycling material into new products.
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How WEEE Recycling Can Improve The Environment?
Annually, millions of tons of electronic wastes are dumped into landfills or vaporized in incinerators. Televisions, consumer electronics and computers compose the majority of this electronic waste, and have a significant impact on the environment. Other types of electronic waste that fill landfills include telecommunication equipment, IT equipments and lighting equipment. These personal electronics release a vast amount of toxic chemicals which includes lead, mercury, cadmium and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers. These chemicals can seep into the earth and the ground water, and cause significant damage to the environment.
The non-discriminate disposal of these products are beginning to come to an end, however, thanks to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (otherwise known as WEEE). WEEE is a recycling directive that has become a standard in European communities in 2003, and became a law in the United Kingdom in 2007, and an amendment in 2009.
Under The WEEE Directive, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, business users, are required to collect and dispose of electronic waste in a way that is environmentally friendly. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, but mainly through re-purposing, recycling, or reusing the electronic waste for other purposes. This directive not only has an impact on how those organisations deal with electronic waste, but also has an impact on how consumers can deal with their electronic waste. This directive allows consumers to return their obsolete electronics to the retailer free of charge. Consumers are also entitled to have a full explanation of how to do this upon sale of the electronics, this must be in writing since 2009.
Before The WEEE Directive came into effect, electronic waste was either disposed of in an incinerators or in landfills. Both of these solutions have distinct disadvantages. Electronics that were incinerated release unacceptable levels of mercury into the atmosphere, and the toxic ash that is a by-product of the process was then dumped into landfills, where they could contaminate the ground water. Electronics that were dumped into landfills eventually leaked these toxic chemicals into the water table, which eventually made its way into the food-chain. This had a significant impact on human health and resulted in higher incidents of asthma, birth defects and fertility problems among the general public.
WEEE Recycling protects the environment by diverting this electronic waste away from these traditional methods of disposal and into more sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions. This directive also prevents electronics from being used for a short time and then discarded. It also allows industry to recover valuable metals such as copper, iron, steel and aluminum from these products. The recovery and reuse of the metals found in electronics greatly reduces the amount of new raw metals that need to be extracted from the earth to make new products. This helps reduce mining efforts, and thus reduce the impact these efforts have on the environment.
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