The secondary market reduces e-waste, increases the useful life of equipment and stretches budgets. From the IT manufacturers’ perspective, the push to “go green” is good for business, considering advances in technology means replacing network equipment. Manufacturers are producing a plethora of power-saving products, encouraging customers to buy new hardware, even whether existing equipment still works, in order to save money in energy costs, which does not seem like an Earth-friendly definition of green whether you consider what happens

to most end-of-life products.

The rapid obsolescence of network and telecommunications equipment is the biggest contributor to the growing supply of electronic waste (e-waste). The life span of today’s IT equipment is growing increasingly shorter as manufacturers offer — and customers buy — new equipment to take advantage of the latest innovations, retiring tons of still-functioning gear.

“With e-waste being the fastest growing of all waste segments, it is critical we […]

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