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Computer recycling - it's quantity that counts!
IT recycling is no longer an emerging market. The gigantic computers of yesteryear that were crammed with precious metals have all been re-used. Today's hardware has become smaller and smaller and there is nothing left to handle. IT recycler's have become brokers and now deal with used hardware that mostly goes to the Far East.
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Start-up entrepreneur Udo Geitel and recycling
In the consumer society of today the amount of old and discarded electric appliances has increased enormously. One person who takes care of these old appliances that are harmful to the environment is Udo Geitel.
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Nationally - disposer; internationally - provider
Since the price of disposing of electric scrap has hit rock bottom, more and more IT recycler's in Germany work as brokers. Even for Computer Recycling Geitel PLC, of Mainhardt-Hohenstrasse, Germany, the trade in secondhand hardware to Eastern Europe has now become the norm.
Please read the entire report (PDF)
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Rubbish dump - the Third World
It's good for their image if enterprises engage themselves in foreign aid and ship IT goods to the Third World. But this is not always good for the recipients, alleges a US environmental organisation, as most of the relief aid is in fact electric scrap.
Please read the entire report (PDF)
Computer recycling - it's quantity that counts!
IT recycling is no longer an emerging market. The gigantic computers of yesteryear that were crammed with precious metals have all been re-used. Today's hardware has become smaller and smaller and there is nothing left to handle. IT recycler's have become brokers and now deal with used hardware that mostly goes to the Far East.
Please read the entire report.................................................................................................................
Start-up entrepreneur Udo Geitel and recycling
In the consumer society of today the amount of old and discarded electric appliances has increased enormously. One person who takes care of these old appliances that are harmful to the environment is Udo Geitel.
Please read the entire report (PDF).................................................................................................................
Nationally - disposer; internationally - provider
Since the price of disposing of electric scrap has hit rock bottom, more and more IT recycler's in Germany work as brokers. Even for Computer Recycling Geitel PLC, of Mainhardt-Hohenstrasse, Germany, the trade in secondhand hardware to Eastern Europe has now become the norm.
Please read the entire report (PDF).................................................................................................................
Rubbish dump - the Third World
It's good for their image if enterprises engage themselves in foreign aid and ship IT goods to the Third World. But this is not always good for the recipients, alleges a US environmental organisation, as most of the relief aid is in fact electric scrap.
Please read the entire report (PDF) 