DecommissioningBusinesses are performing data center decommissioning projects more frequently than ever in today’s evolving digital landscape. Computer systems, mainframes, tablets and laptops are practically obsolete within a year or two of purchasing them....
IT Asset Management Information technology asset management (ITAM) broadly involves the procurement, maintenance and end-of-life destruction of a company’s software, hardware, tablets and mobile devices. Information technology managers are also in charge of:...
Extended Producer Responsibility—Placing Liability Where It Belongs When product manufacturers develop plans to build and market a particular product, they have one goal in mind–to profit off a product that costs considerably less than what it costs to make the...
Recycler CertificationTens of millions of tons of electronic waste are dropped off at recycling centers every year in the U.S. When we take our unwanted cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices to a recycler, we do so because we are concerned about the...
Global Electronic Waste Management The ewaste international dumping disaster began several decades ago when an international treaty called the Basel Convention was enacted by many European Union and NATO countries in 1989. The purpose of this treaty involved...
Electronic Waste Has Been a Problem For Years The global electronic waste recycling issue is not a recent environmental disaster. Since the late 1980s, the evolution of landlines and household television sets to cell phones and laptops/tablets has fueled incredible...
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