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It is widely known that about 90% of e-waste ends up in a landfill. That is ecologically dangerous, irresponsible and wasteful.

Sydney’s small businesses and residents are invited by Dell and TechCollect to recycle their various old computers and accessories on Saturday 26 September.

Dell ran a free e-waste drop-off day in Sydney last weekend, and more than 500 people took the opportunity to get rid of their junk in a responsible way.

A University of Sydney professor has warned that the move to cloud computing could exacerbate Australia's e-waste problems.

Confidential personal and company information including medical records, legal matters, financials, the entire contents of an email inbox and personal mail from a Justice of the Peace are just some of the confidential data found on the hard drives of recycled computers.

Australians are being urged to help set a new world record for the most e-waste collected for recycling to tackle the nation’s fastest growing waste problem.

In 2007/08 less than 14% of the 28.6M computers sold in Australia were recycled. E-waste is a majorly toxic issue for the IT industry.

ICT services provider Dimension Data now provides its clients with an e-waste removal service as part of its technology lifecycle management assessments.

- A leading Australian expert on corporate environmental issues is alerting procurement and supply chain managers to the need to urgently change the way purchasing decisions are made. Rapidly rising energy costs and the introduction of major pieces of legislation related to energy use and waste disposal, slated for later this year, will see an irrevocable shift away from buying on initial price to total cost of ownership.