Category Archives: PC Recycling

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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2010:)

By eoghan | Published: December 31, 2009
Happy new year to all our volunteers & staff. We hope you remember some of your achievements in 2009 and everyone in Camara wishes all of you a wonderful 2010. Your contributions and efforts always amaze us. We simply could not operate without you. If you have a new years resolution to change the lives [...]
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Waste Not Want Not

By Giulia | Published: November 25, 2009
The number of installed PCs worldwide has surpassed 1 billion units, according to Gartner the IT research body. Gartner analysts estimate the worldwide installed base of PCs is growing just under 12 percent annually. At that pace, it will surpass 2 billion units by early 2014. The world’s installed base of PCs remains heavily concentrated [...]
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Smart Schools Need Smart Solutions

By Giulia | Published: November 17, 2009
The potential environmental consequences of the recommended computer purchase programme in the recent Smart Schools = Smart Economy Report have been ignored. As revealed by a 2004 UN report, the environmental cost of manufacturing a computer is extensive. This process uses 6,400 megajoules of electricity (enough to power a CFL light bulb constantly for over 6 [...]
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Recycling Computers is Bad for the Environment

By Giulia | Published: November 12, 2009
Camara is Ireland’s largest computer re-user, sending over 14,000 PCs to Africa to aid education in schools. We have just launched a ‘Computer Recycling is Bad for the Environment’ Campaign to make business and consumers nationwide aware that recycling is not the best practice for used computers. Over 250,000 computers are disposed of in Ireland every [...]
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The Real Cost to the Planet of Owning a Computer

By eoghan | Published: October 14, 2009
Prices of computers keep falling – a new desktop computer may only set you back €350. However, I was shocked to learn the finding of a 2004 UN study that 1.8 tons of material is used to manufacture a desktop PC and monitor – 1,500 kg of water, 240kg of fossil fuels and 22kg of [...]
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UN study: Think upgrade before buying a new PC

By eoghan | Published: September 23, 2009
New report finds 1.8 tons of material are used to manufacture desktop PC and monitor A United Nations University study into the environmental impact of personal computers, due to be published later Monday, has found that around 1.8 tons of raw material are required to manufacture the average desktop PC and monitor and that extending a [...]
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