Refurbished computers for African schools helps stimulate demand for new machines and software in the UK while assisting countries to improve their educational and economic infrastructure. Programmes like Digital Pipeline supported by companies like Microsoft and DHL, are a practical way to link asset management and corporate social responsibility goals whilst complying with the new European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive - the implementation of which has just been delayed from the start of 2006 until mid 2007.
