Reduce E-waste and Maximize Asset Value Recovery When Decommissioning a Data Center

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Reduce E-waste and Maximize Asset Value Recovery
When Decommissioning a Data Center

• Decommissioning an enterprise data center is a
  large and complex project that requires hundreds
  of hours of effort and specialized expertise. IT
  departments are responsible for migrating
  applications and workloads, securing sensitive
  data, and physically removing IT assets from
  existing facilities, often within tight schedules
  and specified budgets.
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The Growing E-waste Problem

• E-waste is the collective term used for
  electronics that are at or near the end of their
  useful life. The term includes everything from
  household electronics and consumer smart devices
  to enterprise data center assets and IT
  infrastructure.  The EPA defines the term
  further, recognizing that there is an inherent
  value in the materials, components, and metals
  that can be reused, refurbished, recovered, or
  recycled.  E-waste is a rapidly growing challenge
  as electronic devices and data centers become
  more common. A 2020 UN report found that 53.6
  million tons of e-waste were produced in the
  previous year. The same report also predicted
  that the volume of e-waste will grow to more than
  74 million tons by 2030 double the amount
  produced in 2014. China, the US, and India were
  the largest producers of e-waste, combining to
  account for nearly 40 percent of the worlds
  total. 

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The Environmental Costs of E-waste

• Electronic devices are made with many different
  materials. Some, including gold, silver, copper,
  platinum, palladium, neodymium and other rare
  earth elements are highly valuable to recyclers,
  and the amount of these precious metals and other
  materials that can be recovered is significant.
  The EPA suggests that one metric ton of circuit
  boards contains 40 to 800 times more gold than
  one metric ton of ore.  On the other hand,
  however, e-waste also contains toxic and damaging
  materials that can cause serious harm to both
  people and the environment if leached into water
  supplies or released into ecosystems. Among these
  are heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and
  cadmium, polluting materials such as PVC
  plastics, and hazardous chemicals such as
  arsenic. 

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Reducing E-waste and Maximizing Asset Value
Recovery

• Enterprises are in a unique position to reduce
  the volume of e-waste dumped in landfills through
  effective reselling, recycling, and disposal of
  IT assets.  Unfortunately, many organizations
  simply do not have the people, processes, and
  expertise available to manage the disposal of IT
  assets in-house. Obsolete and unused assets often
  end up sitting in storage rooms because
  enterprises are unsure what to do with them and
  do not want to re-recognize the assets to recover
  any residual value. As a result, only 23 percent
  of enterprises look to resell IT equipment, while
  a full 26 percent dispose of it without
  attempting to recycle.

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Keeping E-waste Out of the Landfill When
Decommissioning an Enterprise Data Center

• Beyond being the right thing to do, enterprises
  that value environmental, social, and governance
  responsibilities must ensure that they follow
  these values when decommissioning the data
  center.  In most cases, physically removing the
  equipment from the facility is the easy part. But
  before this can take place, enterprises should
  develop, communicate, and implement a clear plan
  for how to manage e-waste, how to maximize asset
  value recovery, and how to ensure that assets
  without residual value are properly
  recycled.  Not only does this help to offset the
  costs of the decommissioning project, but it also
  contributes to solving the growing problem of
  e-waste.

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