The Carbon Line Item
THE CRUNCH · EP 21
TAP TO PAUSE
PAUSED — TAP TO RESUME
Scope 3 emissions — the value-chain category — are moving from voluntary disclosure to expectation, with California's SB 253 and SB 261 leading and value-chain reporting expanding broadly. End-of-life treatment of your hardware sits squarely inside that boundary: what happens to retired IT becomes a line in your emissions story.
And the disposition choice changes the number. Reuse — extending a device's life through remarketing — carries a dramatically better emissions profile than recycling, which in turn beats disposal. The waste hierarchy isn't just environmental ethics anymore; it's the arithmetic of your report.
What sustainability teams need from ITAD now is data: diversion metrics, reuse-versus-recycle breakdowns, and GHG-mapped disposition records that survive an assurance review. A reuse-first program delivers a better number and the documentation behind it.
GHG-mapped disposition data and reuse-first handling, built for sustainability and CSR teams.