25 years in the making, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has set out to educate OEMs on the importance of design for disassembly. To design for disassembly is to think about the ultimate destiny of electronic devices during the design-stage of a product’s development. Why design for disassembly? OEMs must consider the after-affects…
Companies are always saying they want to be more environmentally friendly and reduce their carbon footprint. How many of them can actually show concrete results? Google shrank its carbon dioxide emissions by 9 percent in 2012 compared to the previous year. The big question, how did they do it? The company acquired carbon offsets to…
Excitement is in the air for recycling enthusiasts with the announcement of Dell’s push for completely waste-free packaging. The technology leader has stated its team will continue to work towards this goal and by 2020 100% of its packaging will either be recyclable or compostable at end-of-life. The packaging stream will be made completely out…
Americans now own about 24 electronic devices per household, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), many of which contain CRT glass displays. Recycling CRT glass is a rapidly growing concern for electronics recyclers with massive supplies being stored around the nation and demand only decreasing due to new display technology for electronic devices…
CR Magazine released its list today of the 2012 100 Best Corporate Citizens, a ranking of the top companies graded in 318 elements across 7 core corporate responsibility (CR) categories. Topping this year’s list is Bristol-Meyers Squibb, IBM and Microsoft. CR Magazine analyzes seven categories for the rankings – environment, climate change, employee relations, human…
Matt McLarty’s article “BYOD is unstoppable. Smart companies must build apps” on Gigaom.com earlier this week reinforces the prevailing mindset that the bring-your-own-device trend is going to have to be accepted by companies. McLarty, like many others in the IT industry, believes mobile is going to “dominate enterprise IT transformation over the next decade.” Mobile…