Can e-waste management Can e-waste management ensure a sustainable environment?

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As demand for more gadgets and IoT devices increases, e-waste management continues to be a global problem. While newer devices are designed and built with sustainability in mind, many legacy gadgets and infrastructures aren’t.

Most organizations invested heavily in digital hardware infrastructure in the 90s and 2000s. However, with cloud adoption and digitalization becoming rampant, most of these infrastructures have been deemed obsolete and often marked for disposal.

From old mobile phones to laptops to large monitors and hard drives, both consumers and enterprises replace them after an amount of time. Some legacy devices and infrastructures can be adopted to support modern technologies. Yet, the amount of e-waste generated still continues to increase yearly.