ESG reporting for IT assets means quantifying the environmental impact of retiring, refurbishing or recycling corporate technology — avoided emissions, landfill diversion, and circularity outcomes

Australian Privacy Principle 11 requires organisations to take “reasonable steps” to destroy or de-identify personal information they no longer need. Since December 2024, APP 11.3

Australia has no single national ban on sending e-waste to landfill. Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia already prohibit it, with penalties of up to

Device lifecycle management covers five stages: procurement, deployment, active-use monitoring, retirement and collection, and certified disposition — data sanitisation, functional grading, and resale or recycling.

Certified data destruction means a device’s storage has been irreversibly sanitised using a method that meets a named, recognised standard — such as NIST SP

IT asset disposition (ITAD) is the structured process of retiring, wiping, and recovering value from corporate technology at end-of-life — laptops, desktops, servers, and mobile