Archive for January, 2007

Who pays for your WEEE?


January 11th, 2007

The simple answer is you do!
The producer is normally responsible for collecting, retrieving, treating and disposing of the WEEE in an environmentally sound way.
In practical terms for small companies this usually means joining an approved producer compliance scheme. For a great many companies, such as OPENXTRA, the amount of waste is tiny and the [...]

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Why WEEE is a big problem


January 11th, 2007

WEEE as you all know (you do know don’t you?) stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. The EU alone produces over 6 million tonnes of waste electrical equipment per year, much of it toxic, and it’s growing fast. Separating all this from other waste and reusing, recycling or disposing of it is a major [...]

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A review of 2006 at OPENXTRA


January 8th, 2007

Well, 2007 is here and I thought it would be interesting to review 2006 at OPENXTRA.
I don’t think that 2006 was a great year for new products…in fact I’d say it was quite poor.
The highlight on the cable testing side is the Test-Um Validator-NT, solid 1 gig testing with the addition of network testing features [...]

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A start to 2007


January 4th, 2007

Happy New Year to all our readers!
The new year has started off well. We kept the on-line shop working over the holiday period and most days there was activity on it (not Christmas day mind you). Obviously some people take very short holidays and were in work between the Christmas and New Year breaks.
Here’s [...]

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