Moving to a Deeper Shade of Green

Zero landfill Zero export Zero incineration Zero prison labor

A Good Place to Start
The Hippocratic Oath advises physicians to “First, do no harm.” That’s good advice for those responsible for the safe and secure management of IT assets as well. Responsible Recycling—which combines strong policies on exporting, landfilling, incineration and prison labor with the processes to back them up—is essential to ensuring your organization is not contributing to global pollution, endangering human health or putting critical data at risk.

But it’s just a start. You must expand on these efforts with actions that have a positive impact on the environment—and your bottom line—and you will begin to discover a deeper shade of green.

Decrease acquisition Extend IT lifecycles Repair and refurbish Procure used equipment

Shifting Out of Neutral
The manufacture of computing equipment is energy intensive and robs the Earth of natural resources. With Responsible Recycling practices in place to ensure your IT assets aren’t ending up in landfills either here or abroad, you must now Reduce the demand for new technology by extending lifecycles and ensuring assets don’t sit idle for long. So the environmental costs associated with manufacturing—and your financial investment—are amortized over a longer period.

It’s a move that has a positive impact on your carbon footprint and has saved some organizations millions. And, when you combine it with a program of Reuse, you’ll discover an even deeper shade of green.

Redeploy idle technology Remarket surplus IT assets Donate to charity Harvest parts

Optimizing Asset Value
The single biggest step you can take to reduce IT’s impact on the environment—and cost of ownership—is to Reuse. Whether you decide to redeploy assets internally, remarket them or donate them to charity, you’re diverting electronic scrap from the waste stream and, when combined with refurbishing, putting productive computers into the hands of an organization working to make your community a better place.

It’s an approach that goes beyond power reduction strategies and simple recycling to help you achieve financial, social and environmental objectives. That’s a deeper shade of green.

Smaller carbon footprint Lower cost of ownership Improved social responsibility Warranted data security

Put it All Together
Reducing the demand for new technology, capitalizing on every opportunity for Reuse, and Recycling responsibly and securely at end-of-life creates positive benefits for the environment, your business and our society. We call this approach Sustainable Computing because it allows the highest standards of environmental and social responsibility to be implemented without additional cost. So you can not only achieve green benefits, but sustain them.

Redemtech can show you the way.