Lowering e-waste and lengthening the helpful lifetime of IT gear are prime recycling drivers, in accordance with an IDC survey.
Probably the most generally cited motivation was to scale back e-waste, with greater than half these surveyed in Latin America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific, citing it, and with US respondents falling simply shy of fifty%. The IDC Highlight survey outcomes of 540 respondents was carried out in February 2023 and written by IDC Analysis Vice President, Versatile Consumption and Financing Methods for IT Infrastructure.
Lowering e-waste was additionally essentially the most frequent response no matter area apart from the US, the place bettering helpful life and acquiring worth for older gear was most typical.
Different responses, every of which had been components for greater than 25% of those that answered the survey, included company mandate to enhance sustainability metrics, tax incentives for recycling, regulatory necessities, and permitting workers to purchase their units at end-of-life.
Used gear can scale back procurement cycles, enhance the stock of spare components, and stretch IT budgets, IDC recommends.
It additionally says organizations ought to construct inner groups to set targets to extend use of refurbished gear and report their sustainability achievements to senior management.
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