In 2022, California passed SB 1215, expanding the state’s Electronic Waste Recycling Act to include covered battery-embedded products. The bill imposed a 1.5 percent point-of-sale fee for consumers to cover recycling fees, effective Jan. 1, 2026.
From July 7-8, HOBI’s VP of Sales, Jason Radakovich, will be in Miami, Florida, to meet with other industry professionals. Jason also recently sat down to discuss all things mobile for the fourth episode of the HOBI Conversations podcast, available to watch today.
Smartphones and tablets are utilized daily for business communication, but once retired, they become companies’ riskiest assets. Today’s blog post discusses how ITAD providers offer defensible mobile programs designed to protect data and increase recovery value in retired mobile IT assets.
Trellis Impact 2026 takes place this week, Jun. 23 – Jun. 25, at Moscone West in San Francisco, and HOBI will be waiting to meet you.
Disorganized logistics can result in in-transit shrinkage, device damage, missing chain of custody, and value depreciation due to slowed processing. Partnering with an ITAD provider for customized, scalable reverse logistics services helps prevent risks, enhance data security, and more.
Supplier diversity offers a multitude of enterprise benefits, and Fortune 500 buyers are seeking diverse suppliers to meet their IT end-of-life needs. Factors such as speed, precision, and efficiency are appealing on the surface, but enterprise procurement teams evaluate specific service offerings when sourcing from diverse ITAD suppliers.
Episode 3 of HOBI Conversations is now live. In this episode, HOBI’s Global Accounts Manager discusses the top logistics risks, data centers, chain-of-custody expectations, and how AI is changing logistics.
In the competitive business landscape, certifications can make an enterprise stand out among competitors, and there’s one certification in particular that provides supplier diversity, Fortune 500 procurement benefits, tax incentives, and creates a unique ITAD partnership.
Most enterprises don’t know what to ask their ITAD vendor about either standard. This post explains how HOBI Shield® (our proprietary data erasure technology) addresses both what it produces as audit evidence, and why proprietary erasure technology outperforms off-the-shelf tools for enterprise compliance.
Support for Windows 10 ended in October 2025, creating the largest corporate device refresh wave in years, and the clock is ticking on asset recovery opportunities.