Recycling Near You

Recycling Near You - Recycling Computers in the The City of Onkaparinga area:

"Every year Australians purchase millions of computers and related components to replace equipment superceded by faster and more powerful technologies. Whilst computers are getting smaller and lighter, they are still a major waste management issue - particularly with older computers and monitors."


Planet Ark is great at mustering resources and this website is brilliant if you want to recycle. You type your area and your council area and then all the avenues for recycling pop up. It represents a really positive approach to recycling by making it so straight forward and so easy. That is clevr action and reperesents hours and hours of mustering and input.

When it comes to computer products, though, it's not Planet Ark which is the problem but the lack of logical paths for recycling. You can recycle some back to the manufacturer. You can recycle working ones into school programmes. If the computer parts are stuffed though and you have things like dead monitors then you have to pay to get them collected or you have to have commercial quantities. The sites listed are not near the south. They are neither handy nor convenient....and North Hobart?? What is that doing there. I have said this before on my blog and I am going to say it again because we are coming up to the New Year...we have become very good at recycling, but we still do not have an easy and convenient way of managing computer waste. It needs to be like our bottle and cardboard places...nearby and handy...or in the recycle bin the council picks up.