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Leading electronics retailer Jacky’s Electronics, recently held an ‘Eco-Exchange Recycling’ Roadshow at its Mirdif City Centre Outlet to promote the importance of recycling electronic products through a question and answer competition. During the event, customers could bring in their old mobile phones, notebooks, cameras, MP3 players and gaming consoles and recycle them on the spot to receive special prizes and cash vouchers for future purchases at Jacky’s. “Going green has been a united effort by companies in the world and we would like to take part in creating awareness on the value of recycling electronic products with our customers. Read More…

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According to the United Nations Environment Program, up to 50 million metric tons of electronic waste is accumulated around the world every year, much of which comes from discarded PCs. Fujitsu took the initiative and announced the addition of EraseDisk functionality in selected ESPRIMO PCs, LIFEBOOK notebooks and CELSIUS workstation models, allowing the easy, permanent deletion of data from hard disk drives without needing to boot the operating system. Read More…

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du recently was honoured with the esteemed International Business Green IT award by the Ontario Centres of Excellence (Canada), for their significant award-winning ‘Green’ security project, which was created and implemented by the du Technology Security and Risk Management (TSRM) team. The prestigious award recognised du’s meaningful contribution towards a greener technology solution while maintaining a highly scalable cutting edge security technology. The impressive award, received by Walid Kamal, Senior Vice President, Technology Security & Risk Management, du, on behalf of the company security team, was presented by Hindal Mirza, Senior Business Development Manager of the Ontario Centres of Excellence. Read More…

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Benq announced the launch of its new BL-Series of Green LED Monitors made of recyclable plastic materials and also uses greener packaging. Built to successfully minimize waste and environmentally harmful pollution, the BenQ BL monitors are coating-free and 100% recyclable – with 65% of the monitor frame made of recycled plastics. It also comes with an extra green packaging for easier recycling. All materials used for packaging are EPS-free – with all PVC or foamed plastics replaced with recyclable paper cushion. Moreover, recycled paper is used for 80% packing to save forests. BL-Series LED Monitors – a cost-effective and eco-friendly monitor for corporate users in the Middle East. Specially optimized for office work stations and built with the latest LED backlight technology, the new monitor cuts down power consumption by 33% a year – saving businesses a fortune on energy costs.
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Increasing awareness of climate change and concern for the environment, has put a variety of countries and industries into the spotlight and forced them to review their environmental credentials. Various research papers have shown a strong link between carbon emissions and global warming. The world’s four worst offenders in terms of per capita carbon emissions relative to per capita income are: Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Qatar has more than three times the per capita CO2 emissions as the U.S., and Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates emit almost twice the CO2 per capita as America. Saudi Arabia emits CO2 at near the U.S. level per capita.Read More…

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MTN Uganda recently launched its green initiative called “21 days of Y’llow Care”, with a focus on the United Nation’s Environmental Focus in declaring 2011 the ‘International Year of Forests’. The new initative plans to plant 21,000 trees in 21 days and help raise environmental awareness across the country. “Our programme this year kicks off today June 1 and will run until 21 June 2011 – thus the 21 Days. During these days there are five internationally recognized days related to the environment, which is very appropriate,” said, Themba Khumalo, CEO, MTN Uganda. A week after the tree planting launch, MTN staff will roll up their sleeves and join residents of Kawempe Division in a Waste Management and Recycling exercise that will involve ridding Kawempe of plastics waste. Read More…

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GEMS Education is spearheading an e-waste collection campaign in 16 of its schools to mark World Environment Day. GEMS has partnered with Dubai based company, Enviroserve. Each of the participating schools have collected hundreds of used electronic items including: computers, laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, printers, scanners through their collection centres in the school campus. Enviroserve, which specialises in e-waste management solutions, will recondition, where possible, the collected electronic items or send them to accredited refineries overseas. The three schools that collect the largest amount of e-waste will receive prizes and a recognition plaque from Enviroserve.Read More…

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Fujitsu introduced thin clients powered with eco-friendly power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. Despite drawing only a trickle of power over Ethernet networks, the FUTRO S700 and FUTRO S900 are among the most powerful thin clients available today, boasting up to six times enhanced performance over previous models. Fujitsu is taking Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology from its pioneering Zero Client line to introduce the technology to its thin client line. Offering both power and Ethernet via a single cable for increased flexibility and connectivity, PoE technology requires very low power consumption, benefiting both the environment and companies’ bottom lines.
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Green Office Week is a national initiative intended to raise awareness of the importance of eco-friendly offices and educate workers on how they can make a positive impact on the environment while at work. AxizWorkgroup, an IT infrastructure and software distributor, is passionate about the environment and constantly provides solutions and information that can assist companies and employees in implementing green IT practices in the workplace.

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Africa e-Waste has developed a process that addresses these issues. More importantly for Van Wyk, however, is the role Africa e-Waste is playing in the preservation of South Africa’s environment. Consumer awareness and education is a large part of Africa e-Waste’s strategy. Despite the media attention e-waste has received, consumers don’t understand the far-reaching impact of irresponsible disposal.

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R&M, the swiss cabling specialist keeping the well being of future generations in mind advises organizations to consider green suppliers when choosing IT vendors. With green suppliers, companies are assured that products and solutions are produced in a manner that reduces pollution and has lower environmental impact. With its own sustainable corporate philosophy, R&M equally incorporates economics, ecology, and social concerns in its business practices. R&M takes its leadership role seriously and built its eco-friendly corporate headquarters, the Cube as a foremost example of a green facility with manufacturing capacity.Read More…

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COMMA, a leading designer exclusive products manufacture today has launched a eco-friendly laptop cooling bag in the Middle East, which is made of special crystals-based cooling technology to reduce the temperature by 10 degrees Celsius and prolong battery and laptop life. The environment-friendly COMMA Notebook Cooling Bag, which can be used as Notebook Cooler is faster in cooling, airport friendly and offers mobility with ease. Laptop overheating does not only damage the notebook, it can cause serious health ramifications like Toasted Skin Syndrome, fertility-related risks and even skin cancer.
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