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Category Archives: Computer Recycling
Galway Drop-off Hub open first Wednesday of every month
Directions to Galway Drop-off Hub:
From Lower Newcastle Rd, driving in the direction of Moycullen, turn right onto Distillery Rd at the AIB student Bank. This will bring you into the NUIG campus. Drive 200m up this road, past a zebra crossing. The Camara drop-off hub is a bungalow on its own on the left-hand side [...]
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Decision Time. Responsible Recycling or Ethical Reuse!
‘Householders and businesses in Ireland discard over 250,000 computers every year’. This in itself signifies the importance of computer equipment reuse. The environment is at risk and the best solution lies in reuse of equipment before eventual recycling. Think “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” as each discarded computer will get an opportunity to be reused before compliant [...]
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Birth of a service in Galway
GMIT has successfully incubated a Camara hub from inception in January of this year to getting it’s wings in late June. The proud parents of the social enterprise are the GMIT 3rd year Service Learning class who successfully nurtured the ambitious program, pictured below receiving their student achievement awards from GMIT.
They were tasked to run [...]
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World Environment Day
Cormac Lynch, CEO invites you to join with the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr John Gormley, with regards to the reuse of electronic equipment process in Ireland. This will directly impact all employers and Ireland’s approach to environmental management. The event is at Camara Dublin on the 4th June at 10am sharp, [...]
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Camara in the Irish Times
I loved this article. Partially because it really got to the core of what we’re trying to do, partially because of its irreverence, but in large part because the MSC stories got quoted in the national press!
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2010/0515/1224270435656.html
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Another County Council chooses Camara
Meath County Council is set to become the ninth local council that has chosen to send its computers for reuse, rather than directly to a recycling plant. Camara, an Irish educational charity, collects redundant computers from organisations, with the aim of refurbishing them and reusing them in African and Irish schools.
In donating 28 computers to [...]
Camara NUIG Drop-off Hub Opens
Camara NUIG is delighted to announce the opening of its drop-off hub in Galway.
If you have an old computer lying around, leave it into the Camara NUIG drop-off hub at Lower Newcastle Rd, beside the student AIB bank, on the first Wednesday of every month between 10am-4pm.
A donation of €20 is asked per computer, which [...]
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