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Data, Data everywhere…
Not wanting to walk that well worn path by reeling off quotes such as “the iphone has more computing power than Apollo 11….”, the paradigm around computing power and, in particular, data storage has...
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Top 5 Technologies for Recycling & Sustainable Energy Companies in 2012
Out with the Old, in with the New For many businesses, investment in new IT has been somewhat low on the list of essentials over the last year or two. Despite this, in the hi-tech world, the likes of...
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Technology: the strong arm of the law?
It’s a long time since the metal trade made the news with such regularity. From the tap-rooms in local pubs all the way up to the Houses of Parliament, the discussion around metal theft has never been...
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Look, No Cash!
To address the issue of metal theft, the government has amended various bills to implement a cashless system for purchasing in the scrap metal industry. Here I look into the implication of this and how...
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Leaning Towards Quality
Introduction At the recent scrap-ex conference, I compared the UK’s manufacturing industry from the 1970’s and 80’s with today’s recycling sector. He highlighted some important similarities, and...
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Too many recycling companies are running their business on spreadsheets
In a survey taken at the recent RWM exhibition, Qurius UK discovered that more than 50% of recycling and waste management companies use in excess of 100 spreadsheets on a regular basis to manage their...
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True Cost of Cloud Computing
The world of software is ever changing, and increased choices are making the investment decisions more complex. Cloud computing has added a new dimension and this can, to the uninitiated, create some...
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Bespoke versus Packaged Software
As another year closes and a new one begins the minds of business leaders around the UK are quite rightly questioning their future; strategizing and planning new-year activities for success. For some...
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Big Data
Big Data is omnipresent, yet relatively unknown. It is a technology that affects our everyday lives in so many ways, though most of us do not know it exists. In this blog I attempt to uncover a...
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#Social Influence
Introduction I first used a form of email in 1986, but I guess it has really been my main daily communication tool for some 15 years or so. I have set up an email account for my teenage son, thinking …...
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Top 5 technologies for 2014; will they be a hit or miss?
For many years the recycling and environmental sectors have lagged behind many other industries in their application of technology. Having now worked in IT for a quarter of a century I thought it was...
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Data is cost, only knowledge has Value
In the last 2 years the amount of global digital data has increased by 90%. How can that be? Well, we are generating data at an increasing velocity. The challenge is converting that data into...
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CAN WASTE BE PART OF THE SMART CITY REOVOLUTION?
As we get older life seems to speed up; it’s an interesting phenomenon. Certainly, evolution seems to be increasingly progressive, though I guess there are some that would argue the human race is going...
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5 key technologies that will have most impact on the recycling industry over...
1) Virtualisation (also known as The Cloud!) Virtualisation, incorporating Cloud Computing, will bring significant benefits to companies that need the flexibility to grow and/or contract their...
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Top 5 Technologies for Recycling & Sustainable Energy Companies in 2012
Out with the Old, in with the New For many businesses, investment in new IT has been somewhat low on the list of essentials over the last year or two. Despite this, in the hi-tech world, the likes of...
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Technology: the strong arm of the law?
It’s a long time since the metal trade made the news with such regularity. From the tap-rooms in local pubs all the way up to the Houses of Parliament, the discussion around metal theft has never been...
View ArticleFive ways Recycling companies can get more cash in the bank
Ever wondered how to get more cash into your bank account? It’s a question we ask ourselves on a regular basis. I recently observed a profitable company go out of business because they were not able to...
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