• Terry Maguire – Chairman & Managing Director, Computer Remarketing Services

• Julie-Ann Adams - Joint Managing Director, M Baker Recycling Ltd 

• Joy Boyce – Head of Corporate Environmental Affairs, Fujitsu Services 

• Phil Conran – General Manager Recycling Development, BIFFA Waste Services 

• Jonathan Gorman – Regulatory Policy Manager, Tesco Stores 

• Gary Griffiths – Environmental & Quality Systems Manager, RDC 

• John Holbrow – non-executive Chairman, Pollution Monitors Ltd 

• Leigh Holloway – Environmental Consultant, eco3 

• Kirstie McIntyre – Environmental Takeback Compliance Manager, Hewlett Packard 

• John Morrell – Environmental consultant, Oakdene Hollins 

• Philip Morton – Chief Executive Officer, REPIC 

• Mark Shelton – Waste Promotions Manager, Donarbon Waste Management

We are pleased to confirm that CRS was registered as an Approved Authorised Treatment Facility (AATF) by the Environment Agency on 9th July 2007 Approval Number WEE/HF0003ZS/ATF.

Under the new regulations introduced in the Summer only Authorised Treatment Facilities registered with the Environment Agency are permitted to manage the disposal of electronic equipment.

The new regulations are very complex and vary according to the type of equipment, when purchased and in the case of business whether being replaced on a "like for like" basis. In addition for business users the commercial terms agreed with the original supplier will also have a bearing.

If you need advice please call.

WE WENT AND SNIFFED around the premises of Milton Keynes' Computer Remarketing Services a while ago.

Impressed, we were, with the industrious little outfit of computer recyclers, cleaning up discarded, functional IT kit and passing it on.

We asked boss, Terry Maguire, to ship us a couple of PC systems to have a fiddle with. One running Windows XP and run running an implementation of Linux. He did. And we have duly fiddled. And mighty pleased with the merchandise we are too.

CRS sent us a Dell desktop Optiplex system, bragging a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and running Windows XP Professional. We've also been running a similar HP Pentium 4 based system set up to dual boot to either Windows XP or Mandriva Linux.

The systems arrived impressively packaged up in much of their original cardboard. The PCs themselves are compact desktop systems, similarly sized. The Dell wins on looks while both already look decidedly retro. The HP wins on weight and feels like it's made of solid steel.

Old PCs find new homes in re-use venture

The greening of Terry Maguire

By Paul Hales: Wednesday 28 February 2007, 16:23

HOW MANY PERSONAL COMPUTERS have been built and sold so far? How many of them are still in use? How many have been dumped in landfill sites or exported and dumped in China?

No, we don't know either. Millions, that's for sure.

But with the realisation that the world's resources won't last for ever and that man over the past 100 years has pretty well trashed the globe he inhabits, even chip makers have begun flaunting their green credentials. Well, when it suits them.

And as manufacturers and sellers of electronic kit know, the regulators are after them and want them to clean up after themselves.

The UK government has finally published is guide to complying with the EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). The 80-page document has appeared in a pdf here. These obligations on "producers" of electronic goods will make startling reading for some companies. And, while there has been plenty of wrangling over the proposals, the onus on the producers of the kit to ensure it is cleaned up and disposed of properly is generally seen as a good thing by consumers.