GLRPPR Sector Resource: Responsible Electronics Recycling: Turning Policy into Practice

Title:
Responsible Electronics Recycling: Turning Policy into Practice

Abstract:
IT professionals have become good environmental and privacy stewards during the past 10 years -- on paper. Corporate policy now generally reflects the fundamental tenets of good electronics stewardship, requiring verifiable data destruction and forbidding the use of landfills and export in lieu of responsible recycling. As anyone who receives RFPs for IT asset disposition can confirm, the market has spoken.

URL:
http://www.greenercomputing.com/blog/2009/06/18/responsible-electronics-recycling

Source:
Greener Computing

Resource Type:
Article/report

Date of Publication:
June 18, 2009

Associated Sectors:

• Electronic Waste