Tag Archives: recycling

Tech Data boosts trade-in options on enterprise and infrastructure equipment

 Tech Data is enabling partners to offer their end-user customers even more attractive trade-in options for assured recycling and asset disposal of data centre and infrastructure products. The expanded range of options is the result of new partnership agreements with specialist third-party suppliers. It covers leading industry brands such as HPE, …

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Logitech Scales Use of Recycled Plastic in Products

 Logitech International is embarking on a carbon reduction initiative to incorporate post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic into products. The company’s Creativity and Productivity portfolio has 65% of all mice and keyboard units manufactured using PCR plastic, which surpasses its 50% commitment the company made in 2020. An estimated 8,000 tons of …

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Brother achieves carbon neutral status for recycling centre

Brother has achieved carbon neutral status for its recycling and environment technology centre in North Wales as the business commits to reaching net-zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. The site at Ruabon, which recycles used toner cartridges returned by Brother customers from across Europe, uses 100 per cent green-certified electricity …

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Circular Computing receives BSI Kitemark certification

Circular Computing has been awarded the BSI Kitemark certification for its Circular Remanufacturing Process. The certification recognises Circular Computing’s expertise in not only driving the sustainable IT agenda forward, but also fundamentally changes the perception of remanufactured hardware – ultimately proving that remanufactured products are as good as new and …

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Tech Data extends trade-in services and hardware recycling capability

Tech Data is now offering trade-in, recycling, and refurbishment services on a broader range of IT equipment through new agreements with its partners. Hardware of all kinds can now be traded-in or passed across through Tech Data’s trade-in services and will be dealt with in a way that is environmentally …

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Consenna launches free platform to support, educate and upskill IT resellers

The IT industry is reported to be responsible for 5% of all global carbon emissions and whilst a few big hitters have set distant carbon reduction goals, the channel is largely unsupported in driving digital sustainability.  To address this,  Consenna has introduced its Carbon – an entirely free to use platform …

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Over 100,000 items of IT hardware saved from landfill since launch of Stone 360 app

Since the launch of  Stone Group’s 360 app there has been over 2,000 downloads resulting in over 100,000 items of ageing, broken or redundant IT hardware being taken to its IT asset disposal facility (ITAD) for recycling. Stone Group’s efforts to combat the UK’s growing e-waste problem have since been …

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Novatech strengthens commitment to reducing e-waste

PCs, workstations and server specialist Novatech has further strengthened its commitment to reducing e-waste by refurbished over 200 computers for Exmouth Community College. Exmouth Community College aims to upgrade and replace IT equipment approximately every four years and had over 200 Novatech PCs needing to be replaced. In support of …

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Sustainable sales: How retailers can help reduce their impact on the environment

With the US President claiming last year that he “doesn’t believe” in a report by his own government warning of devastating effects from climate change, and the recent social media whirlwind 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg has made while travelling from the UK to America to attend two climate conferences, the …

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