How we’re supporting the circular economy
Working alongside our vendors and partners, we’ve developed a number of bespoke ‘reverse logistics’ programmes. For example:
- When customer-owned networking equipment has reached the end of its useful life in the field, we facilitate the return of the equipment to our facilities. Here, we assess, clean, re-box, and make it available for re-use in another setting. By extending the life of this equipment, we not only reduce the demand for new equipment but also provide significant cost savings for our partners
- We offer ‘blended’ solutions, which combine new equipment with approved vendor remanufactured equipment. This remanufactured equipment matches the quality and functionality of new equipment, helping us reduce the environmental impacts associated with manufacturing new devices
- When equipment has genuinely reached the end of its life, we pass it to authorised IT recyclers for maximum resource recovery and environmentally friendly handling of residual waste. In FY23, we disposed of an estimated 15,000kg of electrical equipment.
