Prestigious Hi-Tech Awards applaud eDay for diverting toxic waste from our landfills

05 May 2009

The 15th annual PricewaterhouseCoopers Hi-Tech Awards were presented to 11
recipients on Friday night in a special award ceremony at the Christchurch Convention Centre.

Computer Access New Zealand (CANZ), organiser of the national eDay programme, was honoured as the recipient of the award for Outstanding Industry Initiative.

eDay 2008, New Zealand's only community-driven national electronic waste recycling event, diverted 946 tonnes of computer waste from landfills. More than 16,600 carloads of electronic waste (e-waste) was dropped off at 33 venues in October last year with
more than 87,000 computer items including monitors, CPUs and printers diverted from being dumped in New Zealand's landfills.