WEEE (Computer) recycling toolkit
IT-Green is a (Computer / telecoms recycling) (WEEE compliant) recycling company, covering the whole of the UK. It currently operates with a view to provding UK businesses with a safe (licenced and trackable) and secure (certified confidential waste destruction) method of disposing of their IT (e-waste) hardware. Directors anticipate Authorised Treatment Facility status (ATF) by Oct 2008 and AATF (Approved Authorised treatment facility) by Jan 2009. If you're a manufacturer of eee, you need the latter (through a PCS- Producer compliance scheme). If you are a personal user (member of the general public) wanting to recycle your hardware, you can drop it off with us (in Cambridge) or search for a DCF (Designated collection facility)
Friday 19 September 2008, 7:25 AM
Green IT solutions
Very PC featured on Dragon's den, on the BBC and was slated as a direct result of a lack of knowledge on the part of the dragons, the company has solutions that are to put it bluntly mind-boggling. Consider the standard PC as consuming a few hundred watts, the desktops manufactured by Very PC run on less than 30 watts (at full pelt and with AMD 64x2 processors).
This isn't just a company in development either. They've just completed construction of a manufacturing warehouse in Yorkshire and have a significant range of computer solutions, which can be provided in large quantities. So, why do I see the kit as being the de-facto Green IT solution? They're probably the most energy efficient computers on the market at present. Being a viable proposition for large roll-outs and installs, the cost savings for companies needing to replace obsolete equipment could be huge (by my reckoning, a few hundred quid per pc over a 4 year period!). Heck, what I can't understand, given the current green drive for IT, is the fact that companies aren't taking up these computers more. I guess Dell and HP have them locked into service contracts.
Of course, their server solutions could similarly reduce overheads, bringing the overall overheads of a company down markedly. Data Centers could benefit from similar sawp-outs, where running costs could be more than halved.
How can I put this. HP are touting a drive to reduce desktop PC power consumption by 25% on or before 2010. However, this company has managed to achieve a drop of 2 of 3 times this already. Could this be the next Dyson- a British innovation that could potentially change another consumer product?
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