Peter Natcheaf, group sustainability general manager for Sims, said that the cost of mandatory recycling would be two to three Australian dollars per gadget, depending on the metal prices and the size of the gadget. Large telecommunications equipment brought a much better return that just an iPod, Natcheaf said. As there is no electronics manufacturing in Australia, Natcheaf suggested such a fee could be collected at customs.
How nice and considerate - for the hackers and social engineers and information thieves.
Talk about making it easy for them to find some good information from all the high profile customers the centre will have.
Might try and get a job.
well done this is a great thing....e waste contaminates land fill and cloggs up garages all over the country.
If you are concerned about people accessing your old hard drives...remove it from the pc and recycle the rest of it or put it in the microwave for 30 seconds before you send it off to be recycled!!!
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Surely it's about time for action on policy for managing e-waste effectively. Perhaps a better way to splash around the cash, than stimulus handouts, would be to support research and development in a new industry - re-use, recycling and extraction of precious materials from e-waste.