Nowadays, worlds faced many issue of improper disposal of computers and the IT assets. Recently, it became worse because the issue confronting all the suppliers. EPA also estimated that from 2.63 million ton of e-waste, 87.5% of them went to landfills and incinerators while only 12.5% was collected for recycling. What a poor situation!
What the world totally worries about the issue is the hazardous chemicals that will harm peoples and environment where it can leach out of landfills into groundwater and stream. So, it will cause many of health issue for future. For example, it will danger the humans, animals and totally environment.
Besides, it is also estimated that 150 million obsolete computers that being stored by businesses do not know how to dispose them. Recycling is actually the best way of this issue. Nevertheless, it is also have the disadvantages. The increasing number poses numerous for retailers such as confidentiality of corporate of client date and recycling of bulk raw materials to meet the stringent environmental regulations. Retailers also must be aware of “Sham” recycling because the firm will strip the valuable metals electronics and dump the rest into landfills or ship it overseas.
Luckily, POS Chicago take brilliant initiatives to solve the current issue with few solutions. The really help the EPA and PCI compliant standard while helping retailers yield maximum value of their assets. The solution provides from POS Chicago assets disposal are:
- Minimization of data security risks with complete PCI compliant data wipes and hard drive crushing solutions.
- A Disposal Waiver and Certificate of Liability that guarantees all parts of the equipment are recycled to EPA standards.
Management and participation in a re-marketing process that includes:
- Fixed price takeout
- Shared-revenue sale
- No-cost option
- Scrap services
- Data overwrite and logistics process
- Establishing an asset disposal recovery process