Cerebra Integrated Technologies, one of India’s premier total IT Solutions retailers, announced a new partnership with Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd, India’s biggest e-waste recycling firm. The alliance will allow Cerebra Integrated to begin work on its proposed e-waste recycling facility, set to be constructed near Bangalore. Located on 10 acres of land in the region, the new electronic waste recycling unit will be set-up entirely by Cimelia including machinery. The recycling firm will also aid Cerebra in the managing of the new facility. Appropriately dubbed the E-waste plant, the new recycling unit will allow Cerebra Integrated to double its e-waste recycling ... Full Story

A container filled with e-waste has been seized within the Southern Indian city of Chennai after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence dubbed it ‘e-waste dumping’. The Indian media reported yesterday that the shipment had been confiscated after DRI investigators deemed the shipment an illegal dump sent over from Brunei. The container, which arrived marked for Venus Metals located in the Chennai suburbs, had been marked ‘switch board scrap’. However, when authorities opened it, they found 166 computer monitors, circuit boards, loose electrical motor parts, 89 control panels and several broken computer accessories. C. Rajan, the Additional Director General for DRI, said ... Full Story

After Bulgaria opened its first facility for electric appliances and equipment recycling on 28 June, it has become the largest and most high-tech plant of its kind for Eastern Europe. Located near Sofia in the town of Novi Iskar, the new WEEE processing plant will help create 150 new jobs. Utilising German technology, the plant will be able to complete the recycling process for all electronic equipment in one building. As the largest of its type in Europe, factory owners, Nadin Jsc, based in Bulgaria, have invested BGL 40 million in the building of the site. Outfitted with two conveyor lines, one ... Full Story

Dell has announced a partnership with Indian trade association MAIT in order to properly dispose of toxic electronic waste throughout India. India is one of the nations that have been flagged as having a mounting issue with WEEE, or e-waste.  IT companies, such as Dell, often see their products dumped in the developing nations either by contracted waste firms or by users who no longer want them. Dell has said it will look into exploring the issue, in order to prevent harmful build up of dangerous methane gases at landfills. Part of Dell's plans to do this may include investing in recycling ... Full Story

As Recycle Week takes off on Monday, the theme for the campaign has been announced - 'Love your electricals'. Based on research compiled by Recycle Now, the national recycling scheme, examining people's attitudes towards small electrical devices, such as mobile handsets, MP3 players, and laptops, it was discovered that many hold onto such items long after they use them. Of the respondents, 40 per cent said it was too sad to part with such an item, even once it had been made redundant. Another 41 per cent felt the electronic may come in handy later, and 23 per cent thought the item ... Full Story

A recent BBC exposé showed evidence that some organisations may be transporting their broken hardware overseas. Stone Group, a hardware supplier, has widely criticised public sector organisations that allow e-waste to be shipped abroad for illegal dumping. The Group stated that it was disappointed to see IT hardware being dumped on other continents following a BBC programme highlighting the illegal practice. Public sector ogranisations were accused of transporting redundant IT equipment to waste sites in Ghana in a BBC3 spot that aired last week. 'Blood, Sweat & Luxuries: Gold and E-Waste' showed images of children at the waste site in Ghana scavenging ... Full Story

Computer Disposals Ltd (CDL) earned top honours at this year's Green IT Awards held at the London Zoo. The firm was given accolades for 'Recycling Scheme of the Year' collecting its very own bonsai tree and putting them at the forefront as a leading UK IT disposal company. CDL had been nominated for the award by readers of the Green IT Magazine. The company was highlighted for its revolutionary PC recycling scheme. The award was presented on Earth Day with CDL beating out all other competitors. Jean-Pierre Naylor, the director of CDL, said the company was thrilled to received the accolades and ... Full Story

Global office supply retailer, Office Depot, reports that the company successfully recycled 562 tonnes of e-waste through its Tech Trade-In promotion during Earth Day. The office supply firm, in recognition of Earth Day's 40th anniversary, launched the initiative with an aim to collect at least 400 tonnes of electronic rubbish to recycle. Office Depot was able to surpass its goal, collecting over 560 tonnes from customers. Included in the recycled waste collected by Office Depot were shredders, laptops, ink cartridges, printers, and digital cameras. The majority of recycled e-waste was received by Office Depot's California-based retailers, with Florida retailers not far ... Full Story

According to a new report, the sheer amount of old mobile phones and other electronic refuse scattered about households across the UK could pay off one fifth of the nation's budget deficit. An astonishing one-third of the £28 billion worth of electrical equipment will be thrown out this year. But it will not be sent to recycle; most of that percentage will end up in landfill sites in the country and overseas. Envirofone, one of the nation's largest recycling mobile handset companies, sponsored the survey, which found that an average Scottish household has up to £110  worth in unwanted gadgets. This ... Full Story

STAPLES Canada has announced it will be expanding their requirements for accepting recyclable e-waste collection. E-waste, or electronic waste, is becoming a key target area for the recycling community as more and more electronic material is unnecessarily sent to landfill. The move comes as the business supply store enters the second phase of their Ontario Electronic Stewardship. The new requirements took effect on April 1 and applies to all STAPLES stores in the greater Ontario area. Now customers can take items such as TVs, laptops and desktop computers, answering machines, telephones, digital cameras, speakers and projectors to their nearest STAPLES location for ... Full Story

A new recycling processing centre will bring with it 60 new jobs when it opens in Reno later this year. The national electronics recycler responsible for building the facility will also bring in a much needed boost in jobs for the local community. Intechra, a major US-certified electronics recycler, already secured 34 new employees to begin working at its new West Coast recycling facility. The company confirmed that they hope to fill almost 60 positions by year's end. Brian Beinfest, Intechra general operations manager, said that the state of Nevada was business friendly, making it an ideal business choice for the company's ... Full Story

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently signed PC Recycler, an electronic waste management firm, to help recycle around 335,000 items of electric storage equipment, as well as destroy any data which might be left in the items. According to Environmental Protection, the contract will see roughly 100,000 pounds of electronic material be recycled which includes the plastic and metal scraps from the equipment. The facilities used by PC Recycler to handle such contracts feature a dual-shaft shredder used to shred 1,000 pounds of equipment each hour. According to the NIST Special Publication 800-88 regulations, the IRS must have all residual optical, electrical, ... Full Story