3 Dec
2010
3 Dec
'10
7:25 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith
<afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Andy Holt wrote:
Then talk to Computer Aid, who have all manner of legal waivers and so
on to avoid that, and are WEEE compliant.
http://www.computeraid.org/
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Now I can't really believe you, there can't be such a big difference
within the EU.
The UK govt's "gold plating" of the Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment Directive (2002/96/EC) ?tends to make UK businesses and
Universities very wary of how they dispose of "obsolete" (typically 3 year
old) computers.
The university that I work at has a policy that we are not even allowed to
give old hardware away, let alone sell it. I believe that the thinking goes,
that if we sell/give away equipment then we qualify as a supplier and have
the problem that if a piece of equipment subsiquently catches fire and burns
someone's house down then we could be found liable.