There’s an interesting picture story of HP’s recycling centre in California on ZDNet. The tech firm recently celebrated the news that it had recycled 1/2 a billion kilograms of your old PCs, printers, print cartridges and sundry other rubbish. Arch-rival Dell also has a major recycling scheme,
Graham Whitney, IBM’s leader of climate change and carbon management services, has a very long job title – as they all do in the IT industry. But he says companies face massive changes after Christmas when the UK”s Climate Change Bill comes into force. He says: “There’ll be
Well as the title suggests, businesses are failing to recycle printer cartridges. A report from InfoTrends found this: Key findings of the report include: * 80% of remanufactured toner cartridges and 86% of remanufactured inkjet cartridges are thrown away because remanufacturers have such a strong preference for cartridges that have not
Some jolly big names in the business world sent us some blurb on how they met in London last week to talk about the environmental problems of IT. Lloyds TSB, the John Lewis Partnership, Sony UK, the British Medical Association, E.ON UK, CQS and the biggest name of all
This fascinating article in The Guardian compares the average power per square metre that different types of renewable energies produce. It turns out that dams are rubbish (and the piece rubbishes China’s Three Gorges dam project) in terms of the space they consume–and many renewable energies seem to
Not long after we heard about wine coming in either boxes or bags, UK grocery chain Sainsbury’s says it’s going to start selling wine in plastic bottles, as part of a trial. UK consumers buy around one billion bottles of wine every year, using around half-a-million tonnes of
GE has launched a new credit card that allocates 1% of all your spending onto carbon offsetting projects (or 1/2 a percent for those skinflints who still want some cash back). According to the site’s calculations, spending $750 a month — just $9,000 a year, which is what
CHINA WATCH This is the morning view from an office today. Horrible huh? Maybe the window is as dirty as the air；) The same day, 13:30 on Beijing Street. This was some day in May. I miss it… Beijing launched a programme called “Defending the Blue Sky” in 1998,
An interesting story on the NY Times about GE‘s overall Ecomagination transition under the helm of boss Jeffrey Immelt. The Ecomagination line now features 45 products with $12 billion in sales. Although skeptics might look upon Ecomagination as the latest version of corporate “greenwashing,” it has impressed socially conscious
Brilliant Brit designer Tom Ballhatchet has devised an innovative way of reusing the masses of superfluous packaging that comes with new TVs–rather than just binning it, reuse it as a stand. The pictures say it all, really. What a lad.
It’s not just plastic bags that are wasteful and bad for the environment. Apparently more than 15 billion batteries are made and thrown away each year – equivalent to a column of batteries to the moon and back. Moixa Energy’s USBCELL Rechargeable Batteries, are aiming to reduce battery waste
As companies ramp up the sale of credits on international carbon markets — including the Chicago Climate Exchange and European Climate Exchange — experts reckon the global carbon market could reach an enormous $1 trillion over the next decade–as this article points out: Managing emissions is one of the fastest-growing segments
