In recent years, the global recycling industry has been highly criticized. Only 9 percent of plastic is being recycled in North America as most of our plastic is being dumped and burned overseas. China has recently enforced an import ban on large quantities of recycling resulting in industries scrambling for new markets and ways to …
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Apple Shifts Towards ‘Right to Repair’
In recent news, Apple has announced that they are taking steps towards “Right to Repair,” granting select independent repair shops the ability to repair iPhones by supplying authentic parts and diagnostics. As it currently stands, Right to Repair teams are being formed for 2020 to meet with state legislators and discuss the state of affairs …
Are You Protected? Top Data Breach Trends of 2019
Hacking into sensitive data and information is a cyber criminal activity that can be detrimental to an organization, which is why ensuring you’re up to date with the latest data breach trends will keep you ahead of the fight against data breach and hacks. Some prevalent cyber security breach trends in the last year include …
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Ensure Care, Custody & Control of Your Data
Transporting hard drives and other media with sensitive data comes with significant risk. Lifespan’s Shred Trucks provide you with the safest option to securely destroy data. Our fleet of 5-ton shredding trucks can shred 600 drives per hour and over 10 drives a minute at your location and can be performed inside your facility so …
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Lifespan Technology Offering Seamless Transition of ITAD Needs to Arrow Electronics Customers
PRESS RELEASE July 18th, 2019 (Markham, ON) – Lifespan Technology extends its services and resources to all former Arrow Electronics customers and partners amidst the recent announcement the former company will be winding down its IT asset disposition business. In light of Arrow’s statements that it has mobilized to cease operations as a personal computer …
IT Asset Disposition and Co2 Avoidance
E-waste is the fastest growing stream of waste across the world currently. Whether you’re moving to the cloud, refreshing your entire environment or consolidating your tech, simply disposing your current IT assets as waste should never be an option. Retired hardware can often be made workable again through the efforts of ITAD organizations that are …
Learn why Lifespan ITAD is truly a single source vendor with a Global Footprint
Working with a single source ITAD partner, such as Lifespan has multiple benefits, Lifespan has established a global footprint through a robust partnership network which, we both clearly understand and execute unique strategies that are custom created to the organizational needs of our clients. Giving us a competitive advantage to assist our clients on a …
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How to profitably transition to Circular Economy?
Up until now, our economy has been ‘linear’. Organizations adopted this system to manage all their resources, and not just their IT assets alone. In a Linear Economy, goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used, and then discarded as waste. The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) reported in January 2019 that each year, approximately …
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A Deep Dive into Value Recovery in ITAD
Often management of IT assets throughout its lifecycle has been recognized as one major contributing factor to the economic sustainability of enterprises while also being widely recognized as a challenge to organizations. Partnering with a right ITAD Service provider is necessary to maximize value of retired technology assets. The cradle-to-grave journey of green IT measures …
EPP: Time to pull the plug?
How to dispose obsolete IT assets? Year in and year out, this is a question that every organization has to find an answer to. Today’s cutting-edge technology is tomorrow’s scrap. That pile of abandoned personal computers, laptops and tangled cables dumped in the corner can quickly take over your entire office if left unchecked. The …
