Ur Awareness

In order to make a sensible decision on what to do with your old IT equipment, you need to be aware of 2 factors. The first factor to consider is that any data on your device can or may be used against you or your organisation. In order to reduce that risk a certified destruction of your data needs to be carried out and a certificate provided. The second factor is what are the environmental considerations which means you should know who you are dealing with and what their plans are for your device. Please remember that the best for of recycling, is re-use, so by utilising the data destruction solution mentioned above, this will ensure that a device can be reused by someone else, without any risk to you. Many people and organisations continue to keep assets long after they have a use for them and there is often a fear that something important is stored of the device. This can be addressed by doing a local back up regularly, or by backing up the data to a cloud solution.

Ur Security

Security is critical to everyone and to every organisation. Everyone values the information that they have stored and wants it to remain private. On mobile phones, tablets, computer, we all have critical information hidden behind passwords, apps such as facebook, twitter, bank account log ins, utility log ins, instagram, paypal, etc, These can be extremely harmful if they fall in to the wrong hands. It is your responsibility to ensure that a certificate if provided by anyone who is certifying your data removed or destroyed, and ensure that the information relates to the unit exactly. For the organisations, who simply format their data bearing devices then sell those, then if the data can be retrieved, then this can be used to compromise the internal networks of the organisation, sometimes used as a method of hacking

Ur Knowledge

As with anything in life, knowledge is a useful too and what we aim to do is to provide individuals and organisations, with enough information that they can make educated decision relating to how they choose to retire any electrical, electronic or ICT equipment. By working with U.A.S.K.M.E, you can be assured that our knowledge, expertise will benefit you as an individual, an organisation and the environment

Ur Mobility

As IT products and solutions progress and evolve we see a natural migration from previous offerings to new, smaller, faster devices. This comes at a cost. These newer devices maybe only last for 1-2 years, when we look at items such as smartphones and tablet PCs, we reasonably expect them to last 1-2 years, compared to the 3-5 years we would expect from a laptop or desktop PC. This is despite them almost now offering the same computing power but with the portability benefit. Compared to the PCs and laptops these devices are a lot more complex to repair and thus if the cost of repair is almost of the cost of a new device then many people would prefer to just buy the replacement item. This leads to a need for these items to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

Ur Environment

In order to make a sensible decision on what to do with your old IT equipment, you need to be aware of 2 factors. We are all becoming more aware of our responsibility to the environment and we are all seeking to recycle where and what we can. If electronic items no longer work, or you no longer have a use, then it is critically important that we understand that by throwing them out with the regular garbage then this is wrong. These items are made using extremely harmful materials and could have a long term impact on the environment and should they get in to the water supply, can be extremely hazardous to crops, animals, livestock or humans. Here is a list of some of the items used, americium, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, boron, cobalt, europium, gallium, germanium, gold, indium, lithium, manganese, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, selenium, silver, tantalum, terbium, thorium, titanium, vanadium, and yttrium, cadmium, mercury, and thallium, thermosetting plastics, lead, tin, copper, silicon, beryllium, carbon, iron and aluminium, Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), Mercury, Nickel-cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Sulphur, cadmium, mercury, and thallium. If there are devices stored at home or in the office, then by simply recycling those, we are helping the environment in our own small way, by ensuring that these items are recycled correctly which then ensures that the equivalent quantity does not need to be mined to make a future replacement.

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