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Recycling Technology Assets
Recycling Technology Assets Major companies with large IT departments or data centers regularly have to dispose of broken or obsolete electronics. The modern world of privacy laws and environmental concerns makes the issue complicated and the accelerating rate of...
Data Destruction Process
Data Destruction If your company handles sensitive information, then any end-of-life storage media must be disposed of correctly. if it is not, then this data could be easily recovered. This can pose a security risk to both your business and your clients. At Potomac...
Do We Have Enough Lithium?
Why Recycling Lithium Is Important The Energy Crisis of the 1970s emerged from several geopolitical upheavals that eventually ebbed into the oil glut of the 1980s. Consumers enjoyed low gas prices during the 1980s and 1990s, due in part to the Reagan administration's...
What is a Degausser: How Does it Work?
To delete sensitive information rom a hard drive the best option is a degausser. The is a powerful magnet that
Data Center Decommissioning Projects
Decommissioning Data Storage Why are More Companies Today Investing in Data Center Decommissioning Projects? With the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks causing irreversible reputational and revenue losses, the number of companies hiring decommissioning...
Repair or Recycle?
Repair, Reuse, or Recycle? Although the impetus to recycle electronic waste continues to gain widespread cooperation from larger organizations, recycling may not be enough to save our planet from an irreversible environmental disaster. Prior to the age of the Internet...
Why Companies Need to Focus on E-waste
Large Companies Generate Most E-waste Compared to the massive amount of e-waste generated by multinational businesses, small and medium-sized businesses produce just a fraction of that amount. This is in spite of the fact that large companies making huge profits are...
Are Large Companies Exacerbating the E-waste Problem?
E-waste and Environmental Responsibility Should large companies be held legally responsible for the proper disposal of their e-waste? Apple, Dell, and Microsoft employ hundreds of thousands of people globally who rely on devices like smartphones, laptops, and iPads as...
What Does It Take To Make An iPhone?
What does it take to make an iPhone? iPhones are taken for granted by consumers who rely on their cellphones for virtually everything from purchasing items to running a business to ordering their next meal. However, most don't know what materials are used to make an...
What Is The Basel Convention On E-waste?
What is the Basel Convention on E-waste? In August of 1986, a Liberian cargo ship named the Khian Sea embarked from an East Coast port carrying nearly 15,000 tons of ash taken from Philadelphia waste incinerators. Previously, Philadelphia had sent ash waste to New...
Responsible Electronics Disposal
Electronics Disposal In 2019, an estimated 59 million tons of electronic waste dramatically contributed to the burgeoning problem of permanent environmental damage. Unfortunately, the disastrous problem of improperly disposed of e-waste is expected to worsen. In fact,...
How Businesses Can Practice Environmental Responsibility
Environmental Responsibility Principles of Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) focus on the duty of all businesses to operate in the most environmentally-friendly way possible. To assist businesses with determining where their responsibilities lie...