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There's a company called A to Z in near Brentwood in Essex that I know of.

LCWS in Lancashire collects free of charge. check out their website LCWS - Where IT disposal and recycling do not cost the earth

Heres a link to the environment agency weee breifing note that explain when IT equipment is waste. Most school equipment donated or given comes under scenario 12 if it's fully working or 13 if it's intended for repair and reuse. Hence no WEEE transfer notes or waste licences are required http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/WEEE_briefing_note_v2_7.pdf

Look at www.whiteboardpens.co.uk the pens are around £9.00 each.

LCWS have always done a good job for us. They are on 01254 726303. They take anything working or not and don't charge anything.

Try whiteboardpens.co.uk they do pens from £9.00.

whiteboardpens.co.uk are quite cheap for promethean pens.

A pair of BL-554 USB BLUETOOTH ADAPTORS will do the job. Their between £85-£99 retail each, but i've looked on ebay and you can pick them up for £15.00 each.

I have a load of spare control units if you need one just let me know which one you need.

The main difference in the Weee regulations is that if you are a home user then the cost of disposal and return of the item from where it was bought must be borne by the manufacturer. This means if it was delivered direct to your house then they must pick it up, if you collected it from a shop/distributor then you must drop it back. All costs incured must not be passed on to the end user. In the case of Buisness to Buisness (B2B) the manufacturer must set a system where by the items can be collected or delivered to a local depot but the cost associated can be charged to the end buisness. The manufacture/distributor can not make a profit on this service so you will normally find it is in the region of £5-£10 a system for disposal. You can normally do a deal at the time of buying any new kit for the old kit to be taken away at the same time. If the distributor is delivering to you direct and not via a courier then theoreticaly there will be no additional cost and then you should get your kit taken away for free. The alternative if you are not going to have kit ready at the same time you can use one of the donation to charity services that are set up around the country. These are better as you know your kit may get reused or recycled and not scraped or landfilled. There are lots of these though you have to check what they will take as some will only take working kit or items above a certain spec. Here are a few but plenty more can be found by serching for computer waste or computer disposal in google. Giving Solutions Lancashire Computer Waste Services Intelligent Giving | The independent site for the smarter giver Computer Aid International Refurbish Recycle Donate

they want to expand, they only wanted to go so far as oxford. Let me know when you have some kit, i've got kit to go as well, so they'll be more liekly to come out. I have spoken to them today and they cover all the country. All they ask is if you don't have a full load is to give them a week and they will do your collection with another school in your area. you can contact them on 01254 726303 LCWS They ask for total numbers to be collected so they can send the right size vehicle but find that numbers are not always accurate hence them not fitting into the vehicles.

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On most tft's it is not the backlight that goes, it is just a couple of capacitors on the ac-dc invertor board that has gone. Open one of the monitor and look at the long thin board with the wires going to the top and bottom of the screen. Normally around the middle of this board there are two square plastic or metal round capacitors. The plastic ones will have a small hole blown in one of then corners and the metal ones will be domed on the top. Replace these for about 15p each and your screen will be working. All you need is a soldering iron and a nice electronics teacher.

Most tft's that seem to have a back light problem have a couple of capacitors blown on the ac-dc invertor board. These cost about 15p each so for very little time effort and money you can replace these and get the screens working again. This is the same problem you get with athlon motherboards around the 1800mhz mark.

He has been PMed already! If I do not receive a satisfactory reply, the posts will be removed and the account suspended. Spam will NOT be tolerated. I am not affiliated with them. They do such a good job i think someone should let people know. We have not only had all our old kit taken away for free but they have also found us 6 promethian active baords with projectors saving us £11000. They fitted the local cathederal with a IT learning suite and refitted the local charity theatre company with new IT kit in thier offices and booking office. I think these guys are great and if anyone out there is need of anything get in contact with them.

If I were you, I'd use an IT removal company to help clear some space. There are alot of companies that are starting to charge alot of money for the service. We were quoted £900 for the removal of our kit, but luckily we found a company called lcws that took it all away for free. They even took away a load of old bbcs and cub monitors.

give the guys at lcws a ring on 01254 726303. They cover most of the North of the country as well as major cities like London, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

This is true if you are an home user, but it does not apply to buisness to buisness. The manufacturer can charge for the disposal service. Some compaines like Dell don't but others will charge up to £35.00 per system so its worth asking before ordering new kit. There are plenty of free disposal services around the country, we use LCWS and have had a good service.

LCWS dont seem to care how old the items are. From what i understand they have a training scheme where yts people take the older machines apart and recycle the metal, plastic, and circuit boards.

Sales of any item be it a house, car or computer are all covered by the sales of goods act. You are not liable for anything if it is treated as a trade sale ie an old house sold to a builder for refurbishment or PC's sold to a asset recovery company. If however you sell a dilapidated house to someone as an end user for the purpose of them living in it and it colapses with them in it, then i am affraid it is not fit for purpose and you are liable. It is the same with PC's. A shop or market stall will have public liability insurance for the sale of electrical goods. You as a school will have public liability insurance but in most cases this will not cover you for the sale of goods as this is not a normal function of a school. You also have a DUTY OF CARE to your students not to give or sell them an item that may harm them. As for car boots etc if your the type of person who buys a £100 car off the side of the road and hopes it's not going to kill them on the way home, then you are the type of person who will buy a video off the car boot with no come back when it sets on fire. In both these cases the person who sold you the items are liable for your damages but you will have to find them. In your case you can't move the school to a new site to avoid being found by the agrieved.

There are lots of companies / charity groups that take your items for free. We use a company called LCWS who turn up on time and there is a no hassle service. They technically buy the equipment off you by donating £5.00 for every collection to charity on your behalf. They provide all the paper work you need for weee, rohas and end of life responsiblity. All in all a good service and at no cost to us.

No piece of paper can get you out of duty of care. You have the responsibilty to ensure that within your reasonable control you must ensure the correct disposal of all waste, end of life or discarded materials. Selling them on ebay or giving them to some bloke on free cycle does not do this. The only ways of legal disposing of IT equipment is to donate it to a charity group, sell it to a company/ asset management (not end user), or pay a registered waste carrier to take it away. Anything else is in one way or another leaving you open to fines and legal action. I worked at a university that was fined a total of £15,000 because someone in the nursing department decided to get a guy with a van to come and clear out a cupboard of IT equipment. This equiment later turned up in a country lane complete with asset tags. After a lengthy investigation the university was found guilty for not having a disposal policy that all staff knew about. A quick call to the environment agency on 08708 506 506 will confirm this.

By that argument, it is the manufacturer who is going to catch the fine if I sling my old tat into a skip. All they did was transfer the ownership to me, after all. Do you have a reference for your statement? All these only apply once an item is deemed no longer useful to you. It does not apply to a new product or to a product that has benn refurbished and resold by an asset management company. The following is taken from the DEFRA website. "What is the duty of care? The Duty of Care is set out in section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and associated regulations. It applies to anyone who is the holder of controlled waste. Persons concerned with controlled waste must ensure that the waste is managed properly, recovered or disposed of safely, does not cause harm to human health or pollution of the environment and is only transferred to someone who is authorised to receive it. The duty applies to any person who produces, imports, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of controlled waste or as a broker has control of such waste. " And i am affraid as a producer of waste, i.e IT equipment under WEEE, then this applies to all educational establishments. Even if you ring a number out of the yellow pages you still have a duty of care to ensure that you took reasonable steps to ensure that the items will not be fly tipped. This could be just as simple as asking what they do with it and checking maybe one level down the chain to ensure that this is true, Or ensuring that they have waste tranfer notes or waste carrier licenses.

Transfer of ownership does not get you out of your legal resposibility with regard to end of life, weee or data protection. If you give a P.C to anyone with any paper work it is your responsibility to ensure that that person will not dump it illegally or give it some who will. If a monitor and pc with your label or etched markings is dumped in a country lane you can be fined between £75-£50,000. If there is data on the hard drive you can be fined a further £5000 and be sentenced to 2 years in prison. If it were a laptop with a battery there could also be a further £5000 rohs fine. This all come under DUTY OF CARE which came into force in 1991. You can no longer say some guy came and picked it up and took it away. Until the item reaches its end of life and is disposed of or sold to a company (not end user) who take on end of life resposiblity, then you are liable for that item where every it goes for the rest of its life. This also applys to sell stuff on ebay etc. There are plenty of asset management companies who will pay you for your kit or charity / recycling projects who will take you kit for free. The choice is yours but giving them staff and kids should not be one of them. By all means give them to the charity yourself but leave any chance of machines ending up going straight from you to end users. £5000 will buy a lot of nice new IT kit but not if you get fined.