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Electronics Recycling

Circular ITAD in 2026: Practical Steps for Enterprises

2026 will be the year of new rules for the waste industry. Several new industry regulations will take effect in the new year, including the EU Waste Shipment Regulation, effective May 21, 2026, which will enforce tighter export limits and require record-keeping.

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IT Asset Disposition

Holiday Downtime IT Asset Checklist: 9 Smart Steps for a Clean Start to 2026

The holidays are typically a high-stress point for many businesses. Slowdowns create bottlenecks and delays, but they also create opportunities for IT work. Holiday slowdowns produce fewer users, lighter ticket volumes, fewer meetings, and more available facilities. This provides some downtime for IT upgrades, proactive maintenance, and strategic planning, especially for IT asset disposition. This is a time to reset asset controls, update inventory lists, and lay out a fresh ITAD plan for the new year. We’ve created an IT asset checklist to help you start 2026 clean, secure, and organized. 

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ITAD

8 Proven Strategies to Manage Multi-Site Rollouts with ITAD 

Businesses are expanding, and with it comes the need for customizable ITAD rollout management. IT asset disposition is typically a simple process for single-site management. Still, the growth of distributed workforces, acquisitions, retail footprints, healthcare systems, and data centers requires services for multi-site ITAD.

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IT Asset Disposition

ITAD Buyback vs Recycling: Simple Decision Guide for End-of-Life Hardware

When decommissioning IT assets, there is much to discuss and many decisions to be made. This often leads to end-of-life hardware piling up while teams debate value, risk, and time. The longer assets sit idle, the more quickly their value depreciates, which is why disposal decisions should be made promptly and planned. IT asset disposition (ITAD) providers offer a clear disposition path with quick rules, an ITAD checklist, and a tool to help calculate asset value.

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Uncategorized

7 Trusted Methods to Stay Audit-Ready in Your ITAD Program

As the necessity of proper IT asset disposition continues to increase, ITAD vendors are facing more surprise audits, but why? First, rapidly evolving technology has thrust the world into a digital age, necessitating more stringent data security protocols. A digitally-driven era requires digital security to protect enterprise and employee data, and auditors are doubling down on industry standards.

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IT Asset Management

7 Essential Ways to Recover IT Asset Value Before Fiscal Close

Year-end is a high-pressure period for asset management in general, but the fiscal year-end demands early ITAD value recovery. During this time, several stress points converge, leaving companies to face regulatory deadlines, performance scrutiny, and the completion of complex projects all at once. Early ITAD value recovery is crucial to avoid year-end slowdowns that result in logistics and processing bottlenecks and missed resale windows.

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ITAD

7 Critical Year-End ITAD Pitfalls Every Enterprise Must Avoid

As one of the more critical points of the year for IT asset disposition, year-end is not a time to make mistakes; it is often when the most ITAD errors occur. Year-end budgeting yields high ITAD volume, refresh cycles, and lease returns, and the chaos can lead to rushed decisions that negatively impact your enterprise and the environment, resulting in failed audits and ESG goals.

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IT Asset Disposition

12 Essential Steps for a Smooth EOY ITAD Project Checklist 

As the year winds down, many companies are overhauling IT equipment and making replacements for the new year. Intentional end-of-year IT asset management is crucial for maximizing value retention from used assets and for maintaining environmental goals. ITAD projects typically increase during Q4 due to budget cycles, compliance filing, and timeline refreshes. Companies face pressure to meet budget parameters while completing EOY projects, which often include an IT asset refresh.

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Circular Economy

Parts Harvesting and Upcycling: Going Beyond Recycling

Upcycling and parts harvesting move beyond basic recycling by recovering high-value components for redeployment. Learn how HOBI integrates assessment, secure disassembly, logistics, and certified recycling to increase ROI, reduce emissions, and strengthen ESG reporting with measurable, audit-ready results across the IT asset lifecycle.

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ESG

ITAD Data: 10 Essential Strategies to Produce Verifiable ESG Reports

Auditors approve ESG claims that are specific, documented, and consistent. Learn how to convert ITAD data into verifiable disclosures with clear boundaries, chain-of-custody evidence, recognized standards, and a single source of truth—so your sustainability story stands up to testing.

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ESG

Scope 3 Reporting: How ITAD Strengthens ESG Reporting

Scope 3 reporting is pushing companies to account for emissions across their entire value chain. IT asset disposition (ITAD) can provide real data on reuse, recycling, and diversion that feeds directly into Scope 3 categories. This article explains how to use ITAD to enhance transparency and reduce reported emissions.

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