Thursday, August 20, 2020

Ingram Micro Tightens Up E-Waste Efforts

Irvine-based IT distributor Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services, the arm of Ingram Micro which helps companies manage IT asset disposition, says it has teamed up with Closing The Loop, a sustainable solution provider that extracts electronic waste from developing countries and ensures that it is responsibly recycled, to remove the phone weight-equivalent of its employee notebooks from e-waste streams. The company said the move comes because it cannot ensure that its employee notebooks it sell on the secondary market are disposed responsibly at end-of-life. Apparently, there are not enough recycling options within the U.S. for notebooks, which are instead exported overseas--where the company says it cannot ensure they are being responsibly recycled and disposed of.