Category Archives: PC Recycling

Camara PC Breakage Rates

By Ciarán | Published: August 12, 2010
I found this really interesting. We were collectively musing in the office as to how the breakage rates of Camara pcs compare with new pcs. Ste found the following which was really interesting (From Google answers) Below you find will the results of my research for first year failure rates of desktop and laptop PCs for [...]
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Vodafone Go Green Recycle Day – 22nd July 2010

By Shen | Published: August 9, 2010
Camara attended Vodafone’s recent Go Green Recycle Day, held at their Headquarters, Mountainview, Leopardstown. The event promoted ‘reuse and recycle’ amongst Staff with a swap book scheme for Enable Ireland, recycle your phones with the Vodafone support for the Irish Heart Foundation. Vodafone recently supported Camara in using them to recycle printers. While Camara does not [...]
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No thanks! ;)

By eoghan | Published: July 30, 2010
Once a month, the wheels turn and the process of loading the container occurs. We would like to thank all of those who contribute to turning these wheels. If your mentioned, pat your own back, your brillant and thank you. Thanks Ita for processing the laptops. We believe that a busy volunteer is a happy volunteer [...]
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Camara epic poem

By Ciarán | Published: July 21, 2010
This was genuinely for an application. An ‘epic story’ in 2 pages about Camara under the set headings. Yes I am a 12 year old This_is_European_Social_Innovation
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Decision Time. Responsible Recycling or Ethical Reuse!

By eoghan | Published: July 5, 2010
‘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

By eoghan | Published: June 2, 2010
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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Another County Council chooses Camara

By mariea | Published: March 12, 2010
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 [...]
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McCallan appeals for Camara’s Race to Educate

By Ciarán | Published: February 26, 2010
Kyle McCallan, former captain of the Irish Cricket team and teacher and rugby coach at Grosvenor grammar school appeals today for 50 runners/walkers to join Camara in the ‘Race to Educate’ as they launch their campaign to recruit support for their fundraising through participation in this year’s Belfast City Marathon. At the launch outside [...]
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Dublin City Council uses Camaras services to help 7600 school children

By Mark | Published: February 4, 2010
Dublin City Council Trail Blazes on Reuse of Retired Computers – minimising Co2 emissions and providing education to schools * Camara made 18 Dublin City Council retired IT hardware collections in 2009 and to date in 2010. * Camara have amassed over 350 computers in these collections making [...]
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Part of the service…

By Mark | Published: January 28, 2010
Last week the collections team made its way to Diageo to move some heavy server equipment and the mother of all server cabinets. We wheeled the equipment efficiently through a 100 meters of winding office space to the truck taking on two sets of steps. A lot of collections require sheer brute force and [...]
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