Recycling and the Environment

Computerbank Victoria is committed to the environmentally friendly recycling of e-waste.

We send faulty and excess CRT monitors to a Australian Government endorsed processing facility. Monitors are difficult to dismantle saftely. They contain toxic materials and often have electric charges. They need to be dismantled in a safe manner. We will not allow our surplus monitors to go to overseas countries where they may be dismantled by unprotected children.
We send scrap metal (mainly empty cases) to a metal recycler.

We send old and faulty computer boards, power supplies, floppy drives, CD/DVD drives, CPU's, hard drives, cables and chips for metal extraction
We take polystyrene (from packaging that gets sent to us) to a compaction centre where it is eventually turned into picture frames.
Most of our plastics get turned into long life building products such as fence posts and pellets
Despite our best efforts we have yet to find a solution for some of the waste that is generated (some plastic and lead glass) these end up as landfill once all recoverable material has been removed.