UCOL Recycles Its Old IT

UCOL Recycles Its Old IT

UCOL is using environmentally and community friendly ways to dispose of its surplus IT materials, including recycling.

Late last year UCOL donated a stock of surplus computers to Highbury primary school Somerset Crescent School.

Director of Information Systems and Technology Steve Sorsby says, “We’re pleased the computers can go somewhere they will make a difference to the education of Palmerston North children. It’s so much better than dumping them in a skip bin or sending them to a landfill.”

UCOL are also working with IT partner HP New Zealand Ltd to keep New Zealand clean and green by disposing of a large amount of IT waste using the HP Planet Hardware recycling service.

Steve says the disposal service is available only to HP enterprise partners, such as UCOL, and guarantees that all of the equipment will be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

“More than 95 percent of the goods returned are recycled, either as re-usable hardware or as raw materials for re-manufacture,” he says. “So it really will make quite a big difference.”

Steve says after 10 years on the Palmerston North central city campus, the move to a single site in Wanganui last year and “a jolly good tidy up at the Wairarapa campus”, it was time to dispose of the accumulated obsolete hardware.

“Consequently 60 printers, 150 CRT monitors, 25 really old PC’s and a host of sundry other hardware were packed on to 22 pallets and sent to the HP recycling depot in Auckland. All of it was electronic junk, way too old to be useful any longer,” he says.

Steve says the fact that transport and disposal are provided at no cost to the institution makes being environmentally friendly even more attractive.

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