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IT equipment recycling involves the salvaging of precious metals and minerals that require mining or give off harmful byproducts within the environment. Reusing these otherwise nonrenewable resources helps to revitalize the electronic economy. Recovering products that have not yet reached the end of their life extends the value of these resources, allows maximum returns on...Continue Reading

Americans are creating eight times more electronic waste than in 1990, and only one in six of those electronics are getting recycled. What should we do with our old electronics, and why should we recycle them? The first step in recycling old electronics is finding a drop off-site. Many big box electronic stores like Staples...Continue Reading

E-Waste accounts for about 50 million tons of global waste each year. This has led to the rising need for a circular world economy to reduce the carbon footprint of companies producing large volumes of electronic waste. The current tendency towards a linear economy model takes electronic waste and leaves it with nowhere to go....Continue Reading

The proper physical destruction and recycling of electronic devices are essential in maintaining a healthy environment. Still, without the appropriate destruction of data on those devices, sensitive data could be left open to unauthorized use, exploitation, and theft. Data destruction is an essential part of electronic recycling to secure or destroy any sensitive information on...Continue Reading

Asset recovery is a core function of the IT asset disposition (ITAD) process. Without it, ITAD would be a major cost center for most companies. But for organizations on a regular refresh cycle a good ITAD program can actually be a revenue generating activity. This article is going to shed some light on how Avail...Continue Reading

It doesn’t matter what you call it: IT Asset Disposal/Disposition (ITAD), Electronics Recycling, Surplus Liquidation, End-of-Life Asset Management, or Value/Investment Recovery—it’s all the same thing. This might be offensive or disagreeable to people working in the industry trying to come up with new buzzwords to differentiate their businesses, but let’s get real! The bottom line...Continue Reading