This document discusses approaches to electronic and ICT equipment disposal. It notes that ICT equipment has a service life determined by factors like brand, quality, warranty and software updates. The average disposal age is 3-5 years. Benefits of asset management include cost savings, compliance and decision-making. Disposal options include refurbishing, clearing data, and destroying equipment through degaussing, shredding or incineration. Legislation governs environmental protection, electrical safety, and data security. Challenges include a lack of e-waste regulations and infrastructure. The document advocates generating value from disposal through smart aging and procurement. It also discusses avoiding risks to the environment, data and electrical safety through oversight and sustainable

1. Financial and
Corporate Aspects
with Recycling .. ICT
By Ahmed Buhazza

2. What is your approach for electronic/ICT
dispatching? • ICT Service Life
• Wider risk
• Value out of disposal

3. ICT Service Life…

4. ICT procured equipments
Electronic Spendings in Bahrain
(2009)
AV devices Computer
37% hardware
48%
Notebook account
for about 60% of
Computer Sales
Mobile handset
15%
Source: Bahrain Consumer Electronics Report Q1 2011 - Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK
Business Monitor International (December 2010) 2005-06 (million of Units)
http://www.reportlinker.com/p0169782/Bahrain-Consumer-
Electronics-Report-Q1.html

5. The average age of ICT
equipment at disposal
Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2005-06 (million of Units)

6. ICT Age Factors
Brand, Equipment Quality &
Configuration
Supplier Support and Spare
parts availability
Warranty Period
Software/System update,
version Requirements
User & Business Demands
Usage, Carefulness, Damages

7. Asset Lifecycle
Source: Phillip J. Windley (2002)

8. Benefits of Asset Management System
& Refresh Period
• Inventory Control
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Software License Compliance
• Operational Monitoring and
Control
• Decision Making about IT
Resource Deployment
• Zero-day Employee Provisioning
• Standardization and Compliance
• More Informed Purchasing
• Business Resumption
Reducing operating costs (10%-40% cost
savings of operating cost)
Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2007

9. Minimize Total Cost of Ownership
•Dispose before end of life
•End of Warranty
•Buy-Back before End of Life
IT is a Business Decision

10. Wider Risk…in Disposal

11. IC T equipment life-cycle
Procurement  Disposal
Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2007

12. Final Destination!
• Landfill: The burial of waste in regulated disposal facilities.

13. Waste Refuse
ZeroWaste SA’s waste management hierarchy
www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au

14. Disposal options
IT conforms to the European Directive on
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) to dispose of its IT equipment.
Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2007

15. Refining Methods
• Clear
– use software or hardware products to
overwrite storage space on the media with
non-sensitive data.
• Purge
– Degaussing is exposing the magnetic media
to a strong magnetic field in order to
disrupt the recorded magnetic domains.
• Destroy
– Disintegration, Pulverization, Melting, and
Incineration
– Shredding.

16. Legislation
•Environmental Protection
•The Environmental Act (1994), Section 34: Duty of care and The
Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991
•Hazardous Waste Regulations (2005)
•Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (2006)
•Electrical Safety
•The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994
•The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
•Data Protection & Security
•Data Protection Act (1998)
•Official Secrets Act (1989)

17. Challenges with e-waste
• Lack of legislation on the control of second hand electrical/electronic goods;
• Inadequate awareness and public education on the dangers associated with the
environmentally sound management of e‐waste;
• Absence of national infrastructure for formal recycling;
• Inadequate public‐private partnerships in e‐waste control;
• Poor corporate responsibility by the industry;
• Weak global and regional response to e‐waste issues.

18. Value out of Disposal…

19. Generate Better Value
• Smart Aging (Refresh Period) Avoid the time when
– to have no value;
– Define the optimum age for your corporate disposal (3 to 5 – to be unserviceable or beyond
years) economical repair; or
– Consider Reducing the costs of resale and increasing resale – that the disposal cost is higher
than the likely return.
revenues;
– Dispose whenever is practical and cost effective
– Contract for buy-back “revenue sharing”, “zero-cost” or “at cost”,
• Smart ICT Procurement Effective ICT Asset
– Awareness of the longer life items and commercial market values Management and
for used equipments Disposal Policy

20. Avoid the Wider Risk
• Environmental Protection Consider the use of
– Awareness about relevant legislation environmentally sustainable
– Oversight of the disposal agents’ practices methods of
destruction/recycling.
• Data protection and security
– Oversight of Data wiping standard
– Oversight over approaches being used by the disposal agent
• Electrical safety Check
– ICT equipments before resale or donation

21. Be Innovative - 50:50 Scheme
Value Employee Recovered
Year 0 100% 25% 25% Employee Financial
Motivation Reward
Year 1 67% 12.5% 37.5%
Year 2 33% 12.5% 50%
Year 3 0% 0% 0%
Operational Environment
• It is Optional Excellence Protection
• Careful Usage  Longer Service Life
• Faster Refresh Period

22. Replace Cost by Benefits
Cost Benefits Cost Benefits
“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” Robert South

23. Achieve Sustainable Environment

24. Thank you
All the Private, Public and Global organizations that contributing in supporting Recycle IT Project