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Community
enterprise to help the unemployed:
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Computer
re-use
in the community:
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Collaborative
IT
wastestream for the North Staffordshire area:
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The
registered
charity:
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PC
Technician Training:
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Does your
organisation need to dispose of computer equipment?
Then do it through TECC –
The Ethical Computer Centre
(and
help the
community locally and in developing countries …. especially the
unemployed)
IT
Disposal the TECC way:
-
Collection,
documentation as per your agreed requirements
- Secure storage
pending “wiping” of hard disks
- Certification of “wiping” to agreed standards
- Disposal in compliance with
the Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and WEEE
Directives
Ask TECC to provide a quotation for your disposal.
TECC and prospective implementation of
the WEEE Directive in the UK
All IT equipment no longer wanted by its
first user is, unfortunately, designated as waste by the EU Waste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive, due to be implemented in
the UK in 2007. TECC is dedicated to ensuring that as much of this IT
equipment as possible is reused and therefore not yet really waste.
In the guidelines
which accompany draft regulations, there are warm words for reuse (which it is implied will be
subject to a lighter regulatory touch than recycling), and especially
for local reuse arrangements by community enterprises of the TECC sort.
However, it is clearly envisaged that refurbishers should receive
equipment from collection centres. The only way to avoid the prospect
of an uncertain supply at an unknown price from Local Authority tips
appears to be to set up or join a private collection centre. It might,
depending on Local Authority pricing policy, be better for businesses
to transfer good kit to a refurbisher such as TECC acting in this way.
Government advice on the practicality and price of doing this has been
sought to allow comparison with the alternative of paying to send
unwanted equipment to the Local Authority collection centre.
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TECC
started in 1999.
A project of
Burslem Ethical Trust,
registered
charity no. 1082990
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