Windows 11 Upgrade: To Upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question?
Here at Electronic Recycling, we run Win10, Office365 and OneDrive This morning, I decided to look at a Windows 11 Upgrade. The question: Do we need to upgrade and if so, what do we need to do make sure we have a seamless transition from Win10. The Early information releases from Microsoft announced doomsday type […]
Electronic Recycling Re-certified ISO9001-2015 and ISO1400-2015
Electronic Recycling, committed to providing Regulatory Compliance, Sustainability Compliance and ESG Reporting to our valued customers, are pleased to announce that following a comprehensive external audit by AMTIVO this month, we have been re-certified ISO9001-2015 and ISO14001-2015 compliant. Congratulations to our Managing Director Bryan Palmer, who championed and drove the project with CG Business Consultants […]
Data Security: Disposal of IT Equipment Containing Sensitive Data
You have recently upgraded your IT hardware, who looks after data security for your old IT equipment? Is it secure? Organisations need to be extremely focused on Data Security when disposing of IT equipment that contains sensitive data. There are many reports of computers, with their hard drives intact, being found on eBay and other […]
People still disposing of Household e-Waste in Domestic bins
A survey, conducted by Empathy Research on behalf of WEEE Ireland shows that 12.5% of people in Ireland continue to dispose of small electrical items ( Household e-waste ) in Domestic bins. 18-24 year olds are at the top of the league with 25% of them ignoring the environmental and public health risks posed by […]
The UN’s fourth Global E-waste Monitor (GEM), 20th March 2024
The world’s generation of electronic waste is rising five times faster than documented e-waste recycling, A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste/WEEE was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010; On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030; Billions of dollar’s worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped; Just 1% of […]
weee2tree launch a second Native Irish Tree planting project.
The project which is being developed with the Mercey Secondary School in Kilbeggan. started during National Tree Week and saw the planting of an area of native trees on the school grounds. This weee2tree project is being directly sponsored by KMK Metals Recycling and is a follow up to our first project completed at O’Connell’s School Dublin in November 2023, which […]
Reuse and the Right to Repair
Global electronic waste volume is projected to grow to approximately 75 million tonnes by 2030. It is time for Repair, Reuse, and proper Materials Recovery to become the dominant factor in the management of electronic equipment and the word “e-waste” is removed from the lexicon I attended the International Electronics Recycling Congress in Salzburg in January. One […]
You can recycle anything with a plug, battery or cable! International E-Waste Day to shed the light on ‘invisible’ electronic waste.
International E-waste Day is a yearly awareness raising celebration initiated by the WEEE Forum and its members and takes place every year on 14th of October. It aims to highlight the growing issue of electronic waste and promote responsible e-waste management. This year’s edition will run under the slogan “You can recycle anything with a […]
European Council adopts new regulation on batteries and waste batteries
On the 10th July 2023 The European Council adopted a new regulation that strengthens sustainability rules for batteries and waste batteries. The regulation will regulate the entire life cycle of batteries – from production to reuse and recycling – and ensure that they are safe, sustainable and competitive. Batteries are key to the decarbonisation process […]
Almost 50% of WEEE in the EU is not recycled properly
A new study suggests that nearly half of all discarded waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in Europe is not properly collected and recycled. The figures include data for WEEE that are difficult for EU Member States to gather or estimate and, therefore, have not been reported to the European Commission under WEEE Directive obligations. While public […]
