CONTROLLING YOUR E-WASTE IN A COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT

When COVID-19 restrictions are eventually lifted and employees return to the office, so will their new and outdated work-from-home devices. Is your IT organizations prepared to manage the influx in IT assets or will it just become part of a bigger e-waste problem?

Did you know:

There are now more electronic devices on Earth than there are humans, and devices are projected to grow to 25-50 billion by the end of this year. Electronic devices are the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. The United Nations is calling it a tsunami of e-waste.

BE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM

50 million tons of e-waste are produced each year.

This is equivalent to:

The weight of all
commercial aircraft

ever built throughout history

4,500 Eiffel Towers

enough to cover an area the size of Manhattan

About 800 laptops

in need of disposal every second

However...

BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION

As you consider your post-COVID work environment, you should have a plan to address all the new and outdated IT assets that come back with your WFH employees.

Organizations need to create sustainable processes that generate less waste while re-using and recycling devices in environmentally-friendly ways.

Working with an IT asset disposition partner like Iron Mountain, organizations can combat the end-of-life IT asset epidemic and the influx in post-COVID device returns through:

IT Asset Remarketing: Lower the Total Cost of Ownership of your legacy laptops, PCs and other hardware while safeguarding your sensitive data.
E-waste Recycling: You can feel secure knowing that as an e-Stewards Enterprise, Iron Mountain’s follows industry best practices - including a no-export and no-landfill policy.

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CONTROLLING YOUR E-WASTE IN A COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT

When COVID-19 restrictions are eventually lifted and employees return to the office, so will their new and outdated work-from-home devices. Is your IT organizations prepared to manage the influx in IT assets or will it just become part of a bigger e-waste problem?

Did you know:

There are now more electronic devices on Earth than there are humans, and devices are projected to grow to 25-50 billion by the end of this year. Electronic devices are the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. The United Nations is calling it a tsunami of e-waste.

BE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM

50 million tons of e-waste are produced each year.

This is equivalent to:

The weight of all
commercial aircraft

ever built throughout history

4,500 Eiffel Towers

enough to cover an area the size of Manhattan

About 800 laptops

in need of disposal every second

However...

BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION

As you consider your post-COVID work environment, you should have a plan to address all the new and outdated IT assets that come back with your WFH employees.

Organizations need to create sustainable processes that generate less waste while re-using and recycling devices in environmentally-friendly ways.

Working with an IT asset disposition partner like Iron Mountain, organizations can combat the end-of-life IT asset epidemic and the influx in post-COVID device returns through:

IT Asset Remarketing: Lower the Total Cost of Ownership of your legacy laptops, PCs and other hardware while safeguarding your sensitive data.

E-waste Recycling: You can feel secure knowing that as an e-Stewards Enterprise, Iron Mountain’s follows industry best practices - including a no-export and no-landfill policy.

CONTROLLING YOUR E-WASTE IN A COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT

When COVID-19 restrictions are eventually lifted and employees return to the office, so will their new and outdated work-from-home devices. Is your IT organizations prepared to manage the influx in IT assets or will it just become part of a bigger e-waste problem?

Did you know:

There are now more electronic devices on Earth than there are humans, and devices are projected to grow to 25-50 billion by the end of this year. Electronic devices are the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. The United Nations is calling it a tsunami of e-waste.

BE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM

50 million tons of e-waste are produced each year.

This is equivalent to:

The weight of all commercial aircraft

ever built throughout history

4,500 Eiffel Towers

enough to cover an area the size of Manhattan

About 800 laptops

in need of disposal every second

However...

BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION

As you consider your post-COVID work environment, you should have a plan to address all the new and outdated IT assets that come back with your WFH employees.

Organizations need to create sustainable processes that generate less waste while re-using and recycling devices in environmentally-friendly ways.

Working with an IT asset disposition partner like Iron Mountain, organizations can combat the end-of-life IT asset epidemic and the influx in post-COVID device returns through:

IT Asset Remarketing: Lower the Total Cost of Ownership of your legacy laptops, PCs and other hardware while safeguarding your sensitive data.

E-waste Recycling: You can feel secure knowing that as an e-Stewards Enterprise, Iron Mountain’s follows industry best practices - including a no-export and no-landfill policy.

The weight of all
commercial aircraft