Walk into any office building in Singapore and you will find them: stacks of old computers gathering dust in storage rooms, obsolete servers pushed into corners, mobile phones stuffed into drawers, all waiting for someone to figure out what to do with them through proper IT asset recycling. The problem is real and it is everywhere. Every business, sooner or later, has to face the hard truth that technology does not last forever, and when it dies, it leaves behind a mess that cannot simply be thrown into a skip.

The Reality on the Ground

Here is what happens in most offices. A laptop stops working. An employee gets a new one. The old machine sits in a cupboard because nobody knows the proper way to get rid of it. Multiply that scenario by hundreds or thousands of devices, and you begin to understand the scale of what we are dealing with. The IT department knows these machines contain sensitive information. Finance knows there might be value in the components. Management knows there are rules about disposal. But connecting all those dots requires a proper system for it asset recycling.

The lifecycle of technology has become brutally short. A … Read the rest