The path to greener E-waste disposal

The EU alone produces more than 12 million tonnes of electronic waste every year, and a lot of it comes from the unsustainable disposal of retired IT assets. While it’s easy to think of the financial and environmental costs as uncontrollable and unavoidable, Iron Mountain is here to help organisations achieve greater corporate social responsibility and become a part of the solution, not the problem. This paper explores how a sustainable secure IT asset disposition (ITAD) programme can:

• Help sustain the environment
• Protect sensitive information
• Achieve greater compliance
• Inspire greener technology
• Gain competitive advantage