Unnecessary replacement of hardware leads to higher costs and growing waste problem
More than three quarters (77 percent) of IT decision makers say that their organization has a fixed time frame for replacing hardware. 14 percent replace every year, 30 percent every two years and 33 percent every three years.
A survey of 400 US and UK decision makers from Scalable Software suggests this leads to unnecessary upgrades and increased costs and can also have a negative environmental impact.
Land of hope, glory and e-waste: Brits are set to become the biggest contributors to electronic waste this year, but why?
As technology evolves and becomes more accessible, providing new and exciting ways to make our lives easier, it’s easy to ignore the elephant in the room -- the huge amount of e-waste our appetite for consumption is causing. Ignorance has been bliss, but with research suggesting this year the UK could become the world’s biggest contributor to e-waste per head, transformative action is long overdue.
While our drive to have the latest technology is natural, we need to consider what happens to old devices when we upgrade.