[LINK] Article on Slashdot about e-waste

[Chris Maltby]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:41:58PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> There are companies that do it - MRI in Melb and Syd are one, but the 
> costs of meeting the health and safety standards make it marginal at 
> best.  Even then I think they send material off shore for the final 
> metals extraction.  MRI used to make money by refurbishing 
> ex-schools/government PC and reselling them, but with the low price of 
> PCs now even that is not economic esp when you add on the cost of the 
> Gates tax.

I am told that Sims are now recovering above 90% of the materials
from electronic waste they receive. They have an special export
permit to ship monitor glass to europe for remanufacture, but the
rest is done in Australia.

MRI are contracted by Dell and HP to receive old computers when
purchasers of new computers select the recycle option. I don't
know where they handle the harder to reclaim stuff.

Chris