Tag Archives: Computer recycling

Camara commended in Kenyan press

By Shen | Published: August 24, 2010
Choking Under E-Waste July 13th, 2010   Teddy Odindo Sales of electronic products in Kenya and other African countries have risen sharply over the last decade. These days, I often find it cheaper and more convenient to buy a new PC or mobile phone than to upgrade an old one. Additionally, the laying [...]
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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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PEPSICO Ireland-Latest Company to Support Camara

By Shen | Published: August 6, 2010
Companies can support Camara through offering other IT hardware apart from computers for recycling. Camara was delighted to be able to handle the disposal of 100 retired printers for PepsiCo Ireland in June. Camara does not ship refurbished printers to Africa because of the unaffordability of the replacement ink cartridges. However, Camara offers a full [...]
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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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Galway Drop-off Hub open first Wednesday of every month

By jane | Published: July 14, 2010
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!

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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World Environment Day

By Eoghan | Published: May 27, 2010
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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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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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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