Environment
Inrego has been ISO 14001 environmentally certified since 2005.
Our overriding concept is to minimise the impact of used IT equipment on the environment and health. Increasing the reuse of computers reduces the need for energy-intensive new construction, while the amount of waste can be kept down.
After completing the deal, you get a summary of how much greenhouse gas you have saved by reusing the IT equipment. The summary can be beneficial by including it in your internal environmental work and communications.
See below for the environmental savings reusing IT equipment provides:
Responsible Handling
The volume of electronic waste, e-waste, is growing rapidly worldwide. Large amounts are not recovered or handled in an environmentally sound manner, but end up in unregulated landfills in developing countries. Here the products are often stripped and burned by local people in search of valuable raw materials. The handling is harmful to both the health of local communities and to wildlife as well as the local environment. .
Inrego works to prevent IT equipment being dumped in an environmentally detrimental way in the third world. We have developed a program for responsible handling, which aims to ensure that IT equipment that is shared by us is taken care of properly. The equipment that cannot be used for reuse is taken care of by our environmentally certified (ISO 14001) electronics recycling partner Sims Recycling Solutions. Recycling is conducted according to applicable laws and regulations. Sims is the world's largest electronics recycler and a member of the UN's StEP initiative (Solving the Ewaste problem) (http://www.step-initiative.org/) where the world's largest electronics companies work together to prevent electronics ending up in dumps in the third world. Recycling stations are located in most European countries, which means that our interconnected process allows for reuse and recycling across Europe.
Sparing the environment by recycling IT equipment:
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Desktop PC |
Laptop |
Screen |
| Reducing greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e)* |
109 kg |
69 kg |
41 kg |
| Saving energy consumption* |
1866 MJ |
1124MJ |
808MJ |
*) Based on the EuP preparatory study TREN/D1/40-2005, Lot3, 2007 and Energie-und CO2-Bilanz von PCs - Relevanz für Reuse Strategies, Technischke Universität Berlin, 2005, and Inrego's environmental impact.
Want to know more? Contact miljo@inrego.se!
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Did you know ...
- A newly manufactured desktop computer requires as much as 240 kg of fossil fuels, 22 kg of chemicals and 1,500 kg of water.
- A recycled desktop computer saves 109 kg CO2e emissions and 1866 MJ of total energy consumption compared to buying a new one, as the entire energy-intensive production process from raw materials to finished PC is made redundant.
- The EU's framework directive includes priority levels for minimising environmental impacts. It is also known as waste hierarchy: A higher position in the hierarchy means the measure leads to even less environmental impact than the previous level.
EU waste hierarchy IT management:
1. Minimise the generation of waste, do not buy more than you need.
2. Recycle your IT, or buy reconditioned
3. Recycle what cannot be reused, send for recycling so that the metals and plastics can be used in new production instead of mining virgin material from the earth.
4. Extract energy, recycling industry can recover about 90% of returned electronic goods. 8% is incinerated to provide energy.
5. Landfill. After the landfill regulation introduction in 2001, the share of electronic waste going to landfill has now fallen to just 2%.
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