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IT Managers, What's In Your Dumpster?IT Managers, What's In Your Dumpster?
Never mind what's in your wallet. What's in your Dumpster? If you're among the 15% of IT managers interviewed by Osterman Research, electronic waste is sitting there.
Kevin Ferguson
March 12, 2009
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Never mind what's in your wallet. What's in your Dumpster? If you're among the 15% of IT managers interviewed by Osterman Research, electronic waste is sitting there.Depending on your state's laws, that may or may not be illegal. And depending on what you're dumping, whether old CRTs or hard-disk drives, it may or may not be a security threat. What we can surmise from the report is that it was all done intentionally: 100% of respondents answered, "yes," when asked: "Are you knowledgeable about your organization's e-waste policies and practices? By 'e-waste,' we mean end-of-life IT assets such as computers, servers and other equipment that is no longer required." The report, 2009 Converge IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) Trends Report
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