Does your organization have a program to refurbish or recycle devices?

For Cellphones each regional office collects the replacement phones, and those that are still operational get donated for use for emergency calls, frequently for Womens' shelters or Battered Women's organizations.

All of our other equipment, PC's, laptops, Servers, Storage etc, are leased and returned to lessor.

Yes we do. We re-image old equipment and donate to schools and colleges. We also provide old equipment to hardware manufacturers who refurbish and provide a second life. Almost every hardware manufacturer has a program where they can take old hardware and do refurbishment and second life.

Yes. We have two programs. A surplus store where items with perceived end user value but is beyond the life cycle of business use and everything else is sold to an eRecycler.

We have a 4-year cycle for pc’s, everyone gets a new pc at 4 years mark. For laptops we have 2-year and 4-year programs depending on the model.

My company, Virtual Power Systems, builds products that unlock stranded power and data centers. Of the 104 gigawatts of capacity that's out there, 36 gigawatts of it is stranded. The most sustainable data center is the one that's never built, so we should use what we have already and unlock all that capacity. But from a circular economy standpoint, one of our partners is an IT asset disposition (ITAD) vendor called ITRenew.

From a CIO perspective, they take the waste stream from the biggest players—think of Facebook, Google, and Amazon—and turn it into a supply chain. That supply chain becomes an OEM of hardware. They take these things and sell them as brand new equipment with a three-year warranty, just like Dell, HP, and Lenovo do.

It's less than half the cost for the same processing and memory and storage compatibility—like the old laptops that work great because you don't need more bells and whistles from an infrastructure standpoint. And 70% of the embedded carbon is removed because it doesn’t require the rare earth minerals, shipping, and manufacturing, etc. There’s an incredibly powerful sustainable circular economy story in that. If they sold all the inventory they have, they'd be the fourth largest OEM in the world.