TechCollect, Australia’s largest not-for-profit e-waste collection and recycling service, will focus on corporate computer and IT waste in 2014.
Last year, the service broke a Guinness World Record for the most consumer electronics collected in a seven-day period – at 474 tonnes of e-waste – and overachieved its TV collection target for 2012/13 under the Federal Government’s National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS). Now, they are turning their attention to the big end of town.
“This year… medium to large businesses generating high volumes of IT e-waste are going to get special attention – they have a big problem knowing how to safely and efficiently dispose of their unwanted IT, and we have a solution,” says Sonya Blondinau, channel manager for TechCollect.
Of the high volumes of e-waste collected in 2013, TechCollect recovered more than 90 per cent of raw materials – including fully treating leaded glass – delivering safe and responsible environmental outcomes.
TechCollect is a free national e-waste recycling service funded by over 60 of Australia’s leading technology importers and manufacturers dedicated to responsible recycling, including Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fuji Xerox, Panasonic, Epson and many others. It is Australia’s only Government approved, industry backed, not-for-profit e-waste recycling service under the NTCRS. Visit www.techcollect.com.au for more information, and to find your nearest collection site.
