Whatever business you are involved in you’re obligated by law to dispose of electrical and IT equipment by licenced operators; to tackle the very serious issue of increasing numbers of redundant electrical equipment entering landfill sites and being lost forever, the Waste Electronic & Electric Equipment legislation (WEEE) was introduced in 2007. This legislation places […]
Many of the components of modern electrical equipment have elements which are one hundred percent recyclable, and not just the internal workings. Plastic and steel casings and framework as well as the structural body of TVs, washing machines, fridges, computers and monitors including smaller items such as mobile phones and personal stereos can be broken […]
Don’t fall foul of the recent WEEE legislation when disposing of your company’s redundant electrical and IT equipment, it could cost you dear in fines and penalties if your business is prosecuted by an action raised by the environment agency. The Waste Electronic & Electric Equipment legislation (WEEE) was enacted and introduced in 2007 in […]
Any piece of equipment which is used in the home or workplace and has as an element of its internal workings printed circuit boards, micro processor controls and similar control elements are all subject to Waste Electronic & Electric Equipment legislation (WEEE). This legislation was introduced onto the statute books in 2007 and has been […]
Laser printers have become ubiquitous in the office and copying environment. The first laser printer was developed in 1971 by Xerox, and in 1977 it was brought to the commercial market. The rapid, crisp printing soon made laser printers a popular choice for many consumers, although the internal workings of the printer remained mysterious to […]
Dell, Inc, which was ranked the 25th largest company on the Fortune 500 list by Forbes magazine, began its cosmic rise in 1984 when Michael Dell used a mere $1000 dollars to found PC’s Limited. Working in a college dorm room at the University of Texas, Michael Dell had a goal to produce IBM compatible […]
Although inkjet printers were first mass-produced in the 1980s, it was only in the 1990s that prices dropped low enough for that technology to be brought into the mass consumer market. Canon claims to have invented what it calls ‘bubble jet’ technology in 1977, when a researcher accidentally touched an ink-filled syringe with a hot […]
You’ve probably seen calculators with solar cells — devices that never need batteries and in some cases, don’t even have an off button. As long as there’s enough light, they seem to work forever. You may also have seen larger solar panels, perhaps on emergency road signs, call boxes, buoys and even in parking lots […]
Straddling the line between Autumn and Winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated […]
Energy companies are gearing up to increase household fuel bills by removing the cheapest gas and electricity deals from the market. Annual bills might rise by as much as £200 over the next year, according to one price comparison site. The Bank of England stated in its recent inflation report that the UK would see […]
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