Reuse & Eco-Design of IT Seminar - A FREE ONE DAY SEMINAR

9:30 AM - 4:00 PM Friday December 2nd
At The Conference Theatre, Enterprise Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin 8

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Morning Programme

Reuse of IT
Afternoon Programme

Eco-Design of IT

9.30     Registration

10.00   Welcome and Introduction
            Dr. Dorothy Maxwell, Enterprise Ireland

10.05    Project Heatsun
              John Singleton, Dublin City Council

10.25    Reuse of IT in Dublin
              Mary Fay, SwITch

10.40    Current WEEE Management in Ireland
Department Of The Environment, Heritage & Local Government

11.00    Coffee

11.20   European Good Practice in Reuse of IT
              Michelle Rigby, Recycle IT (UK)

11.40  RCT- An Irish Case Study in Reuse
              Alex Stankovick, Central Remedial Clinic

12.00    Questions and Answers

12.30    Lunch

01.00    Introduction
              John Singleton, Dublin City Council

01.10   Eco-Design & EuP Directive
               Dr. Dorothy Maxwell, Enterprise Ireland

01.30     Frontiers in Eco-Design
               Dr Colin Fitzpatrick, University of Limerick

01.50    The Irish Eco Computer
                Paul Maher, MicroPro

02.10     The KERP Eco-Mouse, a Case Study in Eco- Design    Andreas Schiffleitner, KERP (Vienna)

02.30     Coffee

02.50     Life Cycle Assessment of IT
               Stefan Salhofer, BOKU University (Vienna)

03.10     E-Waste Good Practice
               Dr. William O’Leary, Special Metals Refining

3.30       A Irish Life Cycle Assesment Tool                Dr. Tom Roche, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology

04.00    Seminar ends.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

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KEY RESULTS
The Key Results of Project HEATSUN to date are:

1. Setting up collection facilities for IT Waste:

Local Authority Partners pioneered the setting up of collection points for IT waste (5 to date), creating an alternative to landfill, stockpiling and illegal dumping of Waste IT. A system for collecting, sorting and recycling this waste was also implemented. Since August 2005 this function has been passed on to the official Compliance Schemes set up under the new WEEE Regulations.

2. Setting up a sustainable Social Economy Enterprise to Reuse IT.

SwITch (Saving Waste IT Can Help), is a social economy enterprise set up by the project to provide employment and training for the long-term unemployed in the repair and reuse of IT. SwITch was founded in 2003 and currently employs 9 people. SwITch is also funded by FÁS under the Social Economy Programme.

3. Implementing the recycling of IT waste.

As a result of the Project, 20,000 items of IT waste have been collected by SwITch to date, and sorted for recycling or reuse at its workshop in Swords, Co. Dublin.

4 - Promoting the Reuse of IT waste.

To date, 63 reused or upgraded IT systems have been provided to community and training projects and private individuals. A further 130 reusable units are held in storage pending allocation.

5 - Promoting the Eco-Design of IT

Project HEATSUN has supported MicroPro (an Irish SME based in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin), in the development of a Green Computer that will meet the requirements of the new EuP Directive and the European Eco-Label. MicroPro is also funded by the Environment Protection Agency under the Cleaner Greener Production Programme.

For more information contact:

José Ospina, Project Manager,
Tel: 086 8224429
info@projectheatsun.com

Funded under
the Life Environment Programme