Environmental awareness is growing in the business world. Many companies are changing packaging methods and looking for responsible ways to dispose of waste in order to meet environmental goals. Electronic waste makes up 70 percent of the world’s toxic waste, and proper disposition of retired IT assets not only help protect the environment, but can also protect the health of those living near landfills. IT asset disposition providers like HOBI collect retired IT assets like laptops, computers, tablets and smartphones, and ensure they are properly disposed of via e-recycling.
Partnering with an ITAD provider is the most environmentally sound method of e-waste disposal. Landfills and incinerators are popular methods due to convenience, but both lead to pollution and can negatively impact the health of those living nearby. Metals manufactured in electronics today leak toxic chemicals that will soak into groundwater and contaminate groundwater, which will eventually pollute the surrounding water supply. When electronics are burned at incinerators, these chemicals are released into the air and result in air pollution.
ITAD providers offer end-of-use services that maximize value, protect data, and help protect the environment.
Repair, Refurbishment & Redeployment
ITAD providers offer mobility-managed services like repair, refurbishment, data erasure, remarketing, and donation programs that help keep mobile assets out of the waste stream, protect the environment, help prevent battery fires, maximize asset value, and protect enterprise data. Repairing used IT assets for redeployment keeps retired devices in circulation and helps keep them out of the waste stream.
Some ITAD providers also provide donation programs for end-of-life assets with some use left. Electronics donation programs are becoming more popular for companies seeking to get rid of retired IT assets. Many companies are partnering with IT asset disposition facilities like HOBI to provide used electronics to those in need while maximizing the value of their retired IT assets.
Recovery & Recycling
HOBI believes in the sustainability of a circular economy and employs a manual disassembly process to allow maximum recovery of both re-salable parts and scrap material. HOBI’s goal in the disassembly process is to recover and create the maximum return on scrap material for our clients while ensuring all hazardous elements are identified and processed properly. After all reusable material is recovered, all leftover equipment is recycled.
The volume of discarded electronic material has nearly doubled since 2010, and only a small amount is documented as formally collected and recycled, leaving much e-waste to be sent to landfills. Partnering with an ITAD provider eliminates environmental liabilities by ensuring all IT assets are recycled.