Computer Disposal and Monitor Disposal Facts

** If you regularly need to destroy documents that are crucial to your company’s existence, you will want a professional paper shredder service on hand. Only cross cut machines fit into this classification, and they must cut documents into shreds no bigger than one sixteenth inch by five eighths of an inch.

** For those companies looking to avoid landfilling their computer equipment for environmental reasons, there is the added challenge of identifying us as a responsible recycler. In doing this they avoid their computer being shipped to 3rd world countries and their apparent securely removed data becoming available to them with sophisticated data recovery software. Such business information could be become a valuable tool to your competitors.

** The process of transferring your files from your old computer to your new one is more involved than you might think. If you try to back up your old files to CDs or DVDs, you’ll probably be shuffling disks for the next few days. Fortunately, there are better ways to transfer files from one computer to another. The most convenient tool for transferring your files is an external hard drive.

** For the last couple of decades, the rapid advances in computing technology have given rise to a corresponding problem of computers becoming quickly obsolete.

** The process of transferring your files from your old computer to your new one is more involved than you might think. If you try to back up your old files to CDs or DVDs, you’ll probably be shuffling disks for the next few days. Fortunately, there are better ways to transfer files from one computer to another. The most convenient tool for transferring your files is an external hard drive.

** For the last couple of decades, the rapid advances in computing technology have given rise to a corresponding problem of computers becoming quickly obsolete.

** Much of the lead poisoning in the country was blamed on the city’s notorious traffic fumes.

** In 2000, unleaded fuels took over but while the air cleared, toxic levels remain disturbingly high.

** Dr Thuppil Venkatesh says blood lead levels are rising India’s hospitals are starting to see patients with 10 times the expected level of lead in their blood.

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** While the tide is changing, the unfortunate truth is that a lot of computer equipment still winds up in landfills, leaching toxic materials into the soil and groundwater. With a little bit of extra effort, you can take a greener path.
** There are several different ways to remove the data from your hard drive. One way is to use software that erases the drive completely. However, there’s no way to guarantee that this software will effectively destroy all the data. A better option is to take the drive to Able IT Logistics Ltd.
** These days, any computer that is more than 3 years old will be noticeably slower in its performance than a computer that has been manufactured in the last few months.

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** Business owners often interpret these varied and ambiguous disposal laws differently, to suit their current state of mind; but in doing so can be prosecuted.

** For those companies looking to avoid landfilling their computer equipment for environmental reasons, there is the added challenge of identifying us as a responsible recycler. In doing this they avoid their computer being shipped to 3rd world countries and their apparent securely removed data becoming available to them with sophisticated data recovery software. Such business information could be become a valuable tool to your competitors.
** In the best of all worlds, you can anticipate rollouts of new computers and changes in the business climate to plan your procurement and ultimate replacement of IT assets.

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The Importance of Correctly Disposing or Recycling YOUR Computers and Monitors is specifically highlighted in this BBC News Report.

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BBC News Report – UN warning on e-waste ‘mountain’

The world’s richest nations are dumping hazardous electronic waste on poor African countries, says the head of the UN’s Environment Programme (Unep).

Speaking in Nairobi, Achim Steiner said consumerism was driving a “growing mountain of e-waste”.

Unep estimates that up to 50 million tonnes of waste from discarded electronic goods is generated annually.

Improper disposal of e-waste can release hazardous chemicals and heavy metals into the environment.

Mr Steiner made his comments at the opening of a week-long conference in Nairobi which will review the Basel Convention, aimed at reducing the movement of all types of hazardous waste.

“The need for Basel is ever more evident in this globalised world,” he said.

“Accelerating trade in goods and materials across borders and across continents is one of the defining features of the early 21st Century.”

Toxic waste

E-waste is thought to be the fastest growing part of municipal waste in the developed world.

HAZARDOUS WASTE
Computer
1: Lead in cathode ray tube and solder
2: Arsenic in older cathode ray tubes
3: Antimony trioxide as flame retardant
4: Polybrominated flame retardants in plastic casings, cables and circuit boards
5: Selenium in circuit boards as power supply rectifier
6: Cadmium in circuit boards and semiconductors
7: Chromium in steel as corrosion protection
8: Cobalt in steel for structure and magnetivity
9: Mercury in switches and housing

The decreasing cost of replacing computers, mobile phones and other electronic gadgets, and the speed with which technology goes out of date, mean there is more and more to be disposed of.

Traditionally, much of the waste found its way to Asian countries such as China and India, but tighter regulations means more and more is ending up in Africa.

A recent study by the Basel Action Network concludes that a minimum of 100,000 computers a month are entering the Nigerian port of Lagos alone.

“If these were good quality, second hand, pieces of equipment this would perhaps be a positive trade of importance for development,” said Mr Steiner.

“But local experts estimate that between a quarter to 75% of these items including old TVs, CPUs and phones are defunct – in other words e-waste.”

When these are burnt, a common disposal method, it can release toxic fumes and leach chemicals such as barium and mercury into the soil.

International force

The conference will discuss how to tighten regulations to prevent this kind of incident occurring.

In particular it will review amendments to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal which will tighten controls on shipments and disposal of e-waste.

“We need to shine a brighter light on hazardous wastes – where they come from and where they end up,” said Basel Convention Executive Secretary Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto.

The convention is meant to regulate waste in all of its forms, including e-waste. It came into force in 1992, and has since been signed by more than 160 countries.

Members of the convention in Nairobi will also press those countries that have not yet ratified the treaty, such as the US, to do so.

Also on the agenda will be a recent incident in Ivory Coast where noxious fumes produced by waste dumped around Abidjan killed at least 10 people and left more than 70,000 seeking medical treatment.

Although there is no indication that the incident was caused by e-waste, the UN says the incident is indicative of the challenge facing African nations.

“I sincerely hope that the tragedy in Cote D’Ivoire and the challenges of e-waste will serve as a wake up call to the Parties of the Basel Convention and other related treaties,” said Mr Steiner.

Courtesy: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187358.stm

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