A research project carried out by the UN University in Tokyo has proven that the reuse of PC’s is 20 times more environmentally friendly than recycling.
The research was carried out by Eric Williams and Ruediger Kuehr and was documented in their book ‘Computers and the Environment: Understanding and managing their impacts’.
Here at Buyequip, as remarketers and recyclers of IT equipment, our whole business is defined by the premise of reducing the carbon footprint. Buyequip has in the past and continues to be involved in the exporting of computer hardware to India, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. This hardware can then be reused in Universities, schools or other institutions.
In January 2007 and 2008 Buyequip was involved in trading deal of a charitable kind. Brett and the team at Buyequip orchestrated the export of more than 350 PC’s and monitors to the School of St. Jude in Tanzania.
Founded in 2002 by an ambitious woman from an Australian sheep farm, Gemma Sisia, the aim of The School of St. Jude was to provide poverty stricken children with the rare opportunity of a better life through education. The PC’s supplied by Buyequip are now being reused by the teachers and students in the school.
Through business relationships such as these, Buyequip is simultaneously helping the environment and those disadvantaged people in less developed countries.
Source:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/interview-why-reusing-computers-can-be-better-than-recycling-395340
