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WE KEEP UPDATING OUR APPLIANCES BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUFF WE PUT IN THE BIN???

Every day I see old TUBE TV's and other electronic items on the side of the road and that's just in my own neighbourhood!

It's up to us the consumers to put on the pressure . Manufactures and consumers alike  need to be conscious of the fact that  we are just throwing old technology with reusable and toxic parts into a hole in the ground. Yes that's right all that usefull and toxic material is being buried. TV's for example are loaded with copper, lead , mercury ,plastic and precious metals. So think twice about that hard garbage collection that happens twice a year,it all goes into a hole in the ground and it doesn't go away. 

Out of the Trilloins of dollars that are made by electronics manufactures you could say that almost none of that money made goes into taking back the old stuff and reusing the recycleable parts.

I've done a little investigating and there are 2 places that I know in SYDNEY that do recycle your old TV gear  and electronics like computers and mobile phones.

I have also contacted my local council  RANDWICK and apparently there is a once a year pickup that is not a part of the hard rubbish clean up. There are plans  to set up a place so you can take your old electronics for recycling but that may never happen. We the ratepayers and enviromentally conscious must put pressure on councils and local Government to make it possble.   

 

  1. Southern cross metals in Sefton. http://www.yellowpages.com.au/bi/southern-cross-metals-pty-ltd-sefton-nsw-5622598.html Will take your old or broken electronic equipment for free.

  2. SIMS RECYCLING http://www.apac.simsrecycling.com/ charge a fee to take your unwanted electronics.

 Unfortunately you will also need to deliver any electronics you would like to see recycled out to these companies yourselves. 

 

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Written by Carlos   
Tuesday, 08 July 2008

  

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Well it's about time somebody out there in  electronics manufacturing is doing their bit. To my mind its still not enough but it's a start! 

By the way if you are eviromentally concious you could easily today be running your TV of Solar panels! There is an $8,000  Government rebate being offered to anybody in Australia who wants to do their bit.

PLEASE READ ON

For the 1.6 billion people living in areas without utility-supplied electricity, Sharp has designed a TV that can get 100% of its power from the sun. The company plans to exhibit the 26-inch LCD prototype at the Hokkaido Toyako Summit, or G8 Summit, in Hokkaido, Japan, on July 7-9.

The TV uses about one-fourth the power and has about one-third the annual energy consumption of a conventional CRT TV with the same screen size. Compared to today´s LCD TVs, the low-power prototype uses about one-third the power, and about one-half the annual energy consumption.

 This extremely low power consumption allows the TV to be powered from one of Sharp´s triple-junction thin-film solar cell modules, with a surface area of about the same size as the LCD screen. The company plans to market the TV and solar energy system as a combination pair.

The technology could bring TV to the 1.6 billion people worldwide who live off the grid, improving their lives not just with entertainment, but also access to news and information. The company predicts that environmentally-conscious consumers would also be interested in such a product.

Besides the low-power TV prototype, Sharp will also exhibit other energy-saving technologies at the G8 Summit, including a 57-inch AQUOS TV, a solar-LED lighting module, and a super-thin (20-mm) 65-inch LCD TV that uses about half the annual energy consumption of conventional LCD TVs.

In addition, the company will display a semi-transparent "see-through" solar cell module. Developed with a laser-trimming process to create large numbers of optically transparent slits over the surface of the cell, the modules could be used as architectural elements, such as in skylights and curtain walls.
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