IT and the environment in action – How to tackle the eWaste problem

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Title:	IT and the environment in action – How to tackle the eWaste problem
When:	Wednesday 18th July 2007, 3:00pm BST
Duration:	One Hour

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Series Overview

In the fourth and final part of our BusinessGreen web seminar programme, we examine the best practices required to ensure the environmentally friendly recycling and disposal of IT equipment.

Of all the environmental impacts associated with IT equipment perhaps the most visible are the dangers posed by waste IT kit and the many toxic components they contain.

With well documented horror stories detailing how toxic components from dumped PCs, servers and monitors can seep into the ground water and poison people, animals and crops pressure from both the public and new legislation is mounting to ensure their IT equipment is disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

In this web seminar, hosted by IT Week and Computing, we discuss exactly why eWaste is such a problem and explore the best practices and processes required to ensure old IT equipment is recycled, re-used and ultimately disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

Meet the Speakers

Tony Roberts

Tony founded Computer Aid International whilst Executive Director of CODA International, an international development charity based in the UK. CODA
International piloted Computer Aid in 1997 before spinning it off as a separate not-for-profit organisation in 1998. Tony has been the Chief Executive of Computer Aid International since 1999.

Tony has been involved in ICT and international development since 1988 when he volunteered as a computer trainer in Nicaragua. During 10 years as Executive Director of CODA International he has spent considerable periods living and working in both Latin America and Africa.

After gaining a degree in New Technology and Education and a post-graduate diploma in Training and Organisation Development, Tony spent four years as a lecturer. He taught across five BSc undergraduate degree programs analysing the introduction of new technologies into societies and the associated social and economic change.

Iza Kruszewska

Iza Kruszewska has worked as Toxics Campaigner for Greenpeace intermittently since 1991 on issues such as waste trade from Western to Eastern Europe, Clean Production and producer responsibility, chemical pollution and now electronics. Between 1996 and 2004, she supported various NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe to stop the introduction of genetically engineered food and agriculture to the region. Her academic background is in environmental science.

Kirstie McIntyre

Kirstie McIntyre is the Takeback Compliance Manager for HP. Her responsibilities cover all issues concerning the implementation and ongoing development of the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive into EU member states and other Europe, Middle East and Africa countries’ laws. She liaises with Government, industry partners and peers, supply chain members as well as business customers and consumers on implementation of end-of-life directives and the takeback and recycling of HP's products. Kirstie has worked for a number of years in the strategic development of end-of-life programmes for various companies in the electronics sector . She has an engineering doctorate in environmental technology and has published widely on sustainability and supply chain issues. Please see www.hp.com/recycle for more information.