Environmental awareness is becoming more prevalent in the business world as many organizations set ESG goals and implement eco-friendly practices. There are many ways for an enterprise to reduce its carbon footprint, and partnering with an ITAD provider not only helps protect the environment, but also provides many enterprise benefits as well. Proper IT asset disposition will improve environmental standards and help a business achieve ESG goals with safe e-waste management.
Technology is now an integral part of business, which means offices all over the world are filled with IT equipment like computers, desktops, phones, laptops, tablets, smartphones, printers and fax machines. Upgrades are essential, and retired assets can pile up over time and take up storage space if not disposed of. However, a primary issue many businesses face is how to dispose of retired IT assets.
Landfills are a popular method of waste disposal, but e-waste makes up 70 percent of the earth’s toxic waste, and throwing electronics out with municipal waste can be extremely dangerous to the environment. Electronics are made with metals such as nickel, copper, lithium, silver, gold and aluminum, that leak toxic chemicals into the soil when they sit in landfills for too long. This can lead to pollution in surrounding water supplies, and eventually contaminate drinking water.
Another popular method is incineration, but burning e-waste releases the same toxic chemicals into the air and pollutes the atmosphere. For proper IT asset disposition, recycling is the safest, most environmentally-friendly method, and ITAD providers like HOBI ensure retired IT hardware is disposed of at no environmental risk.
HOBI is an R2v3, RIOS and ISO-14001 certified IT asset management and disposition facility with more than 30 years of experience in the waste industry. HOBI prioritizes maximizing economic return and mitigating any environmental liability during the ITAD process.
HOBI offers a range of services including data erasure, which ensures all data is wiped from a device before recycling and that no data is leaked.
Electronics recycling offers an eco-friendly alternative to other disposal methods, as well as enhances environmental standards and can bring an enterprise one step closer to achieving ESG goals.
For more information about our ITAD services, call 817-814-2620 or contact HOBI at sales@hobi.com.