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What Are Rare Earth Metals—And Why Are They Important?
What Are Rare Earth Minerals Rare earth metals are a group of elements from the periodic table: fifteen of them are associated with the lanthanides series and two others are scandium and yttrium. These elements have unique properties that make them valuable...
Energy Conservation for Businesses
Energy Conservation for Businesses The current energy crisis in the western world is causing businesses, both small and large, to carry our energy audits to re-examine their use of utilities to look for possible cost savings. Whether the outcome is as simple as...
Best Practice for Asset Management
Best Practice for Asset Management According to Forbes Advisor, the management of critical assets, amounting to $104.4 trillion, was headed by the top 500 largest asset managers in 2019. This included the asset management of big IT giants that had only recently...
How to Recycle Your Business E-Waste
How to Recycle Your Business E-Waste Business e-waste is rapidly becoming a major problem in the world. Almost every office contains electronic devices like laptops, cell phones, computer monitors, LED bulbs, etc., leading to millions of electronic devices being...
Preventing Data Breaches
Preventing Data Breaches | Here’s What You Need to Know Preventing data breaches is more important than ever as companies can face potential ruin of their finances and their reputation. Data breaches take place when cybercriminals get unauthorized access to sensitive...
Corporate Social Responsibility
What is Corporate Social Responsibility? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept that has companies integrating social and environmental concerns in their day-to-day operations and in their interactions with their stakeholders and community. It is the place...
IT Asset Disposal: Retirement or Disposition?
IT Asset Retirement Data centers and in-house IT departments are used to looking after their equipment and ensuring that it performs at an optimal level, but no matter how well the devices are maintained, there comes a time when they need to be replaced—IT asset...
E-waste is a Worldwide Problem
E-waste in the Modern World All first world nations (and many of the others) are suffering from the accumulation of old and obsolete electronics. The increasing prevalence of “use and dispose of” gadgets has exacerbated the problem and, now that third world countries...
Environmental Impact of the War in Ukraine
Environmental Impact of War The continuing war being waged between Russia and Ukraine threatens to damage not only the physical infrastructure of towns and cities but also to disrupt communications networks—roads, railroads, and bridges. It will also extract a heavy...
The Future of eCycling
The Future of eCycling We are all familiar with the statistics on e-waste: in the USA alone we dispose of more than 30 million computers among over 50 million tons of end-of-life and obsolete electronics, every year. But that is only part of the picture: there are...
America’s e-Waste Problem
America's e-Waste Problem Electronic waste accounts for only 2-3% of the total waste stream in America. That doesn't seem so bad? Not until you consider that the lead, chromium, cadmium, and other materials present in this aging waste account for more than 70% of all...
Hard Drive Shredding: The Facts
Hard Drive Shredding for Data Security So you’ve got a computer with sensitive information on it, and you want to dispose of it. But how do you make sure that your information is safely destroyed? Securely disposing of your personal information is very important to...