Recycler Calls on Australian Government to Play a Role in Electronics Recycling

IT Recyclers, an electronics recycling company based in Sydney, says Australia’s emerging electronics recycling industry cannot remain solely responsible for managing e-waste, but that state and federal governments must also take an active role.

“The rate of technology is moving so fast, businesses as well as consumers tend to update their computer equipment on average every 3 years,” David Allman, founder of IT Recyclers, says.

“We’ve discovered that many businesses throughout Sydney just aren’t aware of computer recycling, nor the increasing problem e-waste is to Australia’s environment. They tend to dispose of their equipment straight to landfill.

“On the other hand we’ve found many concerned business owners taking interest in the way they treat the environment, but don’t know what to do. Until we approached them with our service, they’ve reluctantly been disposing their unwanted computer equipment straight to waste. The fact is there hasn’t been a convenient or viable recycling solution on offer until now,” Allman says.

IT Recyclers' process includes securely wiping computer hard drives, removing asset tags and pulling apart computers, stripping them down to their base components and recycling the resulting materials. The company says that selected computer components and items found to be in working order during testing are cleaned and sold as secondhand spare parts to subsidize its recycling and labor costs. IT Recyclers issues Certificates of Disposal.