The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and a group of industry partners including Apple and IBM met with representatives from both state and federal governments on Wednesday to propose a national computer recycling scheme.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging the tech industry to become greener to save the planet -- and also to boost business.
Victorians will now be able to ditch their unwanted, end-of-life technology equipment in a green fashion following the launch of a state IT take-back program -- with support from big name vendors including Apple, Dell and HP.
HP is releasing a new line of "green" storage products that, according to the company, will require half the power and cooling of its current systems.
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Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.
Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?
While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else â€" there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!
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Lenovo's new ThinkCentre A61e is primarily a business PC, but it also has crossover appeal as a home office system, given its small size -- which echoes that of the Mac Mini and other recent, small-scale desktops.
While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else â€" there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!
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