Analogue to Digital

Product Stewardship Australia – An Ewaste Update

At 1800Ewaste we like to keep track of new and developing government initiatives towards electronic waste. If you’ve read our other articles, you’ll know that one such initiative we’ve followed closely is one put forward by Product Stewardship Australia. The PSA proposed a change to the way electronic waste was dealt with by passing back the responsibility of recycling to the manufacturer. However, according to the PSA the legislation aimed to be in place by 2011. We’re now nearly half way through the year and little seems to have changed in way of electronic waste recycling – so what has happened to the PSA? Government requests

By |2021-11-28T21:00:02+11:00November 28th, 2021|Ewaste Articles|
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Monitoring the effects of our obsolete CRT monitors

CRTs, or cathode ray tubes as they’re formerly known, make up the inside of old style television sets and computer monitors. That hefty looking thing in the attic taking up most of the space? That’s probably your old analogue CRT television . A CRT is a vacuum tube that contains an electron gun and florescent screen used to view images. The face of a CRT is usually made up of a thick lead to protect its delicate interior and block the harmful X-Ray emissions from the viewer. Make way CRTs, LCD coming through… With the boom in technological advances over recent years, the CRT

By |2020-10-18T14:26:13+11:00August 9th, 2020|Ewaste Articles|
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Televisions go to landfill as digital TV arrives in Australia

According to the National Waste Policy, 16.8 million televisions and computer equipment reached their “end of life” in 2007/08- of these, a staggering 84% were sent to landfill and only 10% were recycled. As Australia prepares to switch off analogue signals by the end of 2013 and switch over to digital television, this number will increase dramatically as the country begins to send a staggering amount of hazardous, electronic waste to landfill. Kerbside Recycling & Television Collections Recent research indicates that 90% of Australian households have access to regular kerbside recycling of materials such as plastic, paper and glass with a large majority making

By |2020-10-18T14:27:12+11:00July 26th, 2020|Ewaste Articles|
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The big analogue to digital switch & the ewaste aftermath

By the end of 2013 the government will switch off the analogue signal all over Australia…  aside from the obvious question of ‘can I still watch TV and listen to my radio?’, we need to ask, what happens to all of the obsolete televisions and radios? Unfortunately at this stage the answer will be more than likely…. landfill. Each year 1.5 million televisions are disposed in landfill in Australia1 and with the switch to digital this disposal rate is estimated to rise sharply. Lead and mercury are just two of the many toxic components of a television set that can have extremely dangerous effects

By |2020-10-18T14:31:56+11:00June 14th, 2020|Ewaste Articles|
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Product Stewardship – evaluating the benefits of Australia’s electronic waste recycling scheme.

With the FIFA World Cup set to “kick” off in a matter of days, football fans all over the world will be glued to their television screens to see who takes home the coveted title of World Cup Champions. It is estimated that 26.3 billion viewers will be tuning in over the next 31 days; it will also be the first world-wide event to be broadcast on 3D, HD and through live streaming. The digital switchover might already be sending analogue television to an early grave, but the World Cup will certainly be speeding up the process as football fanatics rush to watch the

By |2020-02-09T08:27:42+11:00February 9th, 2020|Ewaste Articles|
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