Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SUSTAINABILITY
- Sustainabiliy in IT
manufacturing
- Making products in such a way that
does not harm the environment.
- Reduce the amount of harmful
chemicals in products
- Lead and Mercury
- Reduces the chances of these
chemicals being exposed to the
environment when equipment is later
disposed of
- Making products more energy efficient
- Less energy product uses to operate -> Less
impact it will have on environment
- Smaller contribution to
CO2 omissions
- Includes using recycled materials in order
to package products
- To help reduce the amount of
waste produced from their
manufacturing
- Sustainability in IT Disposal
- Ensuring old computer
equipment is disposed off
safely
- Does not end in landfills where
toxic substances they contain can
leach in to the ground water
- Potentially polluting water sources
- Causing other environmental problems
- such as contaminating wildlife
- Many manufactures
offer TAKEBACK
programs
- Where they dispose of or recycle old
products for you
- So the IT department does not have to be responsible
for ensuring the safe disposal of OLD eqipment
- Management of Sustainability in
the company's IT usage
- Way in which company manages its IT assests
- Purchasing energy efficient
equipment such as desktops, printers,
servers, laptops
- Managing energy consumption of the equipment efficently
- Making sure that there is a policy in place to
switch off equipment off when it's not in use
- Take other measures
that reduce the
amount of energy
used by the
equipment
- Includes environmentally friendly disposal of the
equipment through recycling or donation at the end of
its lifecycle