Recycle Computers to Save Resources

Recycle Computers to Save Resources

30 November 2010-Sims Recycling Solutions is calling for greater global recycling of computer and ICT equipment in order to preserve the earth’s finite resources of precious and rare earth metals. The company says that unless recycling of computer and ICT equipment is substantially increased, the world will start to run out of the metals needed to make the equipment within the next two decades. Sims Recycling Solutions’ Reggie Chesson said: “Many organizations and businesses are now waking up to the fact that surplus ICT equipment should not be treated as waste as it contains valuable resources that can be re-used. We have a duty to sustain the earth’s resources by recycling ICT assets and we are pleased that awareness of this issue is becoming more widespread. We rely heavily on computers and other ICT products in everyday life and the bottom line is that we are rapidly running out of the materials we need to manufacture them.