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UN outlines global e-waste goals

The UN has launched a global initiative to tackle the growing mountain of electrical and electronic waste.

The private-public partnership hopes to create a global recycling standard, extend the life of products and improve the market for second-hand goods.

The world's annual volume of "e-waste" is expected to exceed 40m tonnes in the near future, the UN estimates.



1: Lead in cathode ray tube and solder
2: Arsenic in older cathode ray tubes
5: Antimony trioxide as flame retardant
4: Polybrominated flame retardants in plastic casings, cables and circuit boards
3: Selenium in circuit boards as power supply rectifier
6: Cadmium in circuit boards and semiconductors
7: Chromium in steel as corrosion protection
8: Cobalt in steel for structure and magnetism
9: Mercury in switches and housing

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Posted at 11:41PM Mar 06, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Eco data centers.  |  Comments[0]

Go green in the data center.

The growing power consumption by data centers and the need to cool constantly running equipment and servers results in increasingly high energy costs. Using less power helps cut the cooling bill. Using smaller, more efficient servers reduces the need for expensive rack space. Now, what's good for the environment is imperative for business.

UltraSPARC T1 processors with CoolThreads technology: The industry's first eco-responsible microprocessor employs 32 threads operating concurrently to keep pace with the increasing speed of the Internet, but uses less power and creates less heat than a household light bulb — saving you millions of dollars in energy and cooling costs. Learn more

Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 CoolThreads Servers: Based on the revolutionary, ultra-fast UltraSPARC T1 "rack-on-a-chip" processor, these 1U and 2U servers are the most energy-efficient, space-saving platforms for Web- and application-tier processing on the planet Learn more



Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Servers: Powered by AMD Opteron processors, these servers are among the most energy efficient x64 servers in their class, providing more than 52 percent power and cooling savings compared to competion. Learn more

Posted at 01:53PM Feb 23, 2007 by Simon Bullen in Eco data centers.  |  Comments[1]