International e-waste Day stories

Dell Technologies tackles e-waste with Concept Luna, championing sustainable, recyclable technology design.

Sustainable tech start-up Reboxed has bagged £1.6m to boost its eco-friendly marketplace, aspiring to rehome 100 million devices by 2030.

Data centres could account for a fifth of the world's power consumption by 2025, underlining a pressing need for sector sustainability, says Wisetek.

Seagate Technology unveils Exos CORVAULT 4U106, a multi-petabyte block storage system with a massive 2.5PB capacity.

Schneider Electric updates sustainability metrics-reporting system aimed at improving environmental benchmarks for data centres.

Blancco's software prevented 107m KG of IT devices from becoming e-waste, erasing data from 63.8 million devices in the past year.

The project aims to save companies money and give unwanted IT equipment such as laptops, PCs, phones and tablets a new lease of life.

BOM IT Solutions has partnered with the electronic waste company, Byteback, to help the IT sector reduce its electronic waste and cut its carbon footprint.

CIOs have an opportunity to take a comprehensive look into the health of their IT infrastructure, and in particular, end-user experience.

Arnies Recon has saved over 4.5 thousand tonnes of appliances and electronics from landfill in the last three years.

The new Exos X systems feature up to twice the performance of the previous generation and enhanced enterprise-class durability, the company states.

SOTI research finds 72% of IT leaders in Australian corporations think devices are being disposed of unnecessarily, despite many having sustainability targets.

There is a link between enterprise data security and sustainability, according to a new report from Blancco Technology Group.

The adoption of data-driven technology is at an all-time high, but 77% of IT decision-makers do not trust their data, according to research by SnapLogic.

Circular IT management is possible, and it could save hundreds of millions of old IT products from ending up in landfills and polluting the earth.

TCO Certified has extended its online product finder to included measurable sustainable performance data for certified products.

Companies failing to promote sustainability in dealing with end-of-life equipment and e-waste, says study by Blancco Technology Group and Coleman Parkes.

A new report by Blancco Technology Group reveals a major e-waste crisis, as 76% of end-of-life devices are not sanitised and reused despite CSR policies.

The ICT industry should work towards reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 45% in the next 10 years, in order to comply with the Paris Agreement.

The survey found that 86% of businesses don't consider the environmental impact of their facilities to be an important factor for their data centers.