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About Me:
My Name is Richard Tanfield-Johnson (Richard Tj) and I'm extremely fortunate to be co-founder of my own company, IT-Green®. As a consequence of this, I've had the freedom to develop a number of roles within the business, one of which is being webmaster of a number of environmental websites and managing the marketing and social media for the company. I've also been very fortunate to self fund my professional development within this role, gaining an extensive knowledge of website design and development, professional qualifications in Waste Management and attending professional peer-reviewed examinations, leading to recognised post-nominal titles as well as the qualifications necessary for the operation of both Waste Electrical/ electronic recycling facilities (WEEE ATF) and non-hazardous waste treatment facilities. I've got a passion for the environment and a deep concern for our changing climate. Whether you believe that it's man made or not, my key concern is that we're sucking the earth dry and I'm on a mission to do everything I can to learn about the processes involved and how we can mitigate our impact on this planet. I maintain a blog attached to our main website, documenting recycling issues and also maintain our Facebook page (IT-Green), which has current news regarding waste management and environmental issues.
About Our Business
Founded way back in 2005, we started out with one single goal- to provide a different type of service, one that didn't dump our waste on other countries, polluting the land and stunting the development of the people living there. We called it an ethical recycling service and that's pretty much stuck since it's inception. We've been contracted to a number of very well known brands since we started out and continue to take away their old computer hardware to this day.
We provide a waste management service that incorporates what is known as an Authorised Treatment facility, backed by licensing from the UK's Environment Agency. We've brought on board some really talented young people who have grown with us over the last decade. They're really competent at what they do and have extensive qualifications from WAMITAB, the governing body of waste management qualifications in the UK- which they got while working for us! These qualifications cover both WEEE and Non Hazardous Waste. They've also got a grip on the key aspects of running a business- profit, loss and forecasting- and I'm really proud of them for understanding the reasoning behind this because it makes the running of a small business just that little bit easier.
What we do!
IT-Green is a B2B service provider , recycling waste IT and telecoms equipment. We also destroy data on storage media- lots of data and lots and lots of Hard Drives, Tapes, CDs, DVD and solid state media- in fact, so many that we produce half a tonne of aluminium each month from the process. Given that each hard drive weighs just 300 grammes on average, that works out at just over 1,500 hard disks each month!!!
We currently process 120 tonnes of obsolete computer hardware each year, collecting it throughout the UK from Businesses, Schools and Local Authorities (Town, District and County level). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Recycling of waste/ end of life Computers has allowed allowed me to donate a large ammount of processing power to Boinc projects by repurposing a number of systems that were previously faulty or no longer wanted by the previous owner. However, it's not just SETI (something I've been fascinated by since my undergraduate days in the 1990's) but also such projects as climatechange.org that I've also devoted processing power to. The first is out of pure curiosity, the second out of necessity.
As of writing this background, my company operates a Mac Pro 3,1 Macbook Pro 5,1, two intel iMacs and will shortly roll out two Apple X-Serve Xeon based systems.
It is intended to grow the number of units put towards the projects. In effect, we anticipate 10 baseunits running 24/7, computing terraflops of data.
More details regarding our efforts can be seen here |
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