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Environment Issues
Disposal of Electronic Equipment
Electronic products contain deadly toxins such as mercury, barium, lead, chromium, cadmium, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins.
E-waste that is dumped into landfills or is recycled without care, can leach heavy metals into the ground water and soil. Burning E-waste produces lethal acid fumes, chlorine, and sulphur dioxide gas.
Waste products such as lead, mercury, and PCBs are dumped in waterways, fields, and open trenches. Contaminated soil and drinking water often contains poisonous levels of lead and other heavy metals. The consequences of this pollution include serious health problems such as respiratory diseases, neurological disorders, and leukaemia.
Artificial demand for new equipment
Manufacturers spend large amounts of money to persuade customers to replace older IT equipment with brand new products. OEMs attempt to create a façade of environmental sensitivity, using spurious claims that their new models are more energy efficient than older products. The reality is that IT products are produced using extremely energy-intensive manufacturing processes; the energy used to manufacture the products is many magnitudes greater than the total energy consumed during a life-time of daily operational use. Network performance improvements gained by purchasing the "latest and greatest" technology products is often minimal, and is always accompanied by hefty financial costs. Most manufacturers have a policy of ceaseless rolling withdrawal of support for older products, with the intention that the replaced equipment is scrapped.
A 2008 Corporate IT Forum study, found that 69% of IT managers viewed cost efficiency as being critical to implementing greener policies.
The current tough economic conditions have placed tight budgetary constraints on IT managers. The working life span of a network infrastructure is potentially almost unlimited. Comtek's repairs and spares services enable equipment to be kept in good running order for as long as the customer wishes -- good for IT budgets and good for the environment
Save Money, Protect the Environment
There are a number of steps that equipment users can take to preserve their IT budgets and help the environment. Comtek's action plan (see below), will help companies to reap sizeable financial savings without any loss of network performance or reliability.
Action Plan
- Upgrade rather than Replace IT infrastructure
- Repair faulty electronic equipment instead of replacing
- Purchase Tested & Warranted Refurbished Hardware
- Many of the largest house-hold name companies operate older equipment which performs perfectly well and reliably.
- If your current installation fulfils your network requirements, don't be tempted to unnecessarily change to the very "latest & greatest" manufacturer´s products. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
- Remarket unwanted IT hardware for re-use rather than disposal. Many well known organisations have learned the financial benefits of using Refurbished Hardware.
- Recycle unusable IT equipment responsibly.