Recycling
IT Equipment Recycling
 Gone are the days when old computers went to landfill.
Australia Post’s old, broken and unwanted computers now go to
GreenPC, a not-for-profit organisation that refurbishes and recycles
PCs and provides them to individuals, schools and charitable organisations
that can’t otherwise afford such technology.
Long-term unemployed young people are trained to rebuild and repair
the computers, while machines that can’t be re-used are stripped
of valuable metals and plastics for recycling. Nothing goes to waste,
and young people develop skills that will give them future employment
opportunities.
Cards 4 Planet Ark
 Australians send 260 million Christmas cards each year – and that
doesn’t include the millions more Birthday, Mother’s and
Father’s Day, Valentine’s, Get Well and other greeting cards
that are sent throughout the year.
Australia Post has joined forces with Planet Ark to support their annual
greeting card recycling campaign. On the day after Boxing Day, people
can go into their local post office to pick up free, postage-paid ‘greeting
card recycling’ envelopes (while stocks last) to put their unwanted
cards in and then mail them to Planet Ark for recycling.
So far, Planet Ark has recycled around 430 million cards and envelopes
into ‘ARC’ cardboard packaging and ‘Safe’ toilet
tissue – saving over 40,000 trees that would otherwise be used
to make these paper and card products.
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