Educating the Next Generation: The Importance of E-Waste Awareness in Schools
Past generations made plenty of mistakes, and you may have seen evidence of this when walking in a remote section of the forest where someone dumped a broken refrigerator, freezer, or microwave. In rural areas, it wasn’t uncommon for people to have pits in their acreage and use them as personal dump sites for trash […]
The Role of Legislation in E-Waste Management: A Look at Current Regulations
Electronic waste (e-waste for short) is all of the used electronics that are no longer needed or have aged out. At that point, the items like laptops, printers, cellphones, digital cameras, and tablets end up in storage, the trash, a recycling center, or are donated to someone else. What Are the Current Regulations in the U.S.?E-waste […]
How to Maximize the Value of Your Retired IT Assets
When your business upgrades its IT or decommissions a data center, all of those retired IT assets are no longer necessary. That’s everything from your servers and computer stations to printers and tablets that have to go.All of this IT may no longer be valuable to you, but it can be very useful to someone […]
Developing a Sustainable IT Asset Disposition Strategy for Your Business
Every company needs to have a sustainable IT Asset Disposition strategy. Why? It’s going to save you money, improve your reputation, and help the environment. IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is a management technique for handling end-of-life IT items like laptops, desktop computers, servers, printers, smartphones, tablets, etc.Three Benefits of a Sustainable ITAD StrategyWhat are the […]
The Importance of Accessible Technology
What is accessible technology and why is it important? To better understand the value of accessible technology, it helps to understand who is using it. Around the world, around 1.5 billion people have lost hearing in at least one ear, and around 430 million of them have disabling hearing loss. By 2020, it was estimated […]
Protecting Your Business from Cyberattacks: The Importance of Properly Disposing of IT Assets
In today’s digitally-centric world, businesses rely heavily on technology to remain competitive. With the increased use of internet-enabled devices, such as routers and switches, the importance of network security cannot be overstated. These devices are used to connect users to the internet and help businesses communicate, both internally and externally. However, if not properly secured, […]
Data Security and E-Waste Disposal: How to Protect Sensitive Information
Around the world, there were around 16 billion mobile phones, and 5.3 billion of them were expected to become e-waste. That’s just cell phones. They’re the fourth most common type of e-waste that ends up in a drawer, closet, or storage area and is forgotten. More concerning is that some end up in the trash […]
5 Tips for Smooth Data Center Decommissioning Projects
In 2022, estimates are that there were 5.9 million Google user queries, 231 million emails sent, and millions of instant messages. Video streaming, customer sales, account details, social media posts, and so many other aspects of data is generated each day. Statista estimates that the data that was created and captured was around 97 zettabytes […]
Why Is Battery Recycling So Important?
If you have electronic or electrical devices and items in your home, chances are high that it runs on battery power. Smoke, fire, and carbon monoxide detectors usually take a 9-volt battery, and every household has multiple devices. Your laptop and smartphone likely have a lithium-ion battery. Your desktop computer has a cell battery. Solar lights […]
Don’t Throw Out Hard-to-Recycle Items Without Reading These Tips
“Wishcycling” is one of the biggest challenges for recycling facilities. What is wishcycling? It’s a situation where people place items in their blue recycling bins because they have a recycling symbol or it’s made from materials that you feel are recyclable. But, those items actually contaminate the recycling stream and create a situation where a […]