Sustainable Technology Lifecycle Calculator

Positive environmental impact

IT asset management for the sustainable business

Every IT solution must maximise efficiency, simplicity and cost-effectiveness. But the best businesses, like yours, also want to reduce their environmental impact.

Refurbishing a device can mean lower overall CO₂ emissions as there’s no need for a brand new device from the manufacturer. It can also reduce e-waste by avoiding the need to dispose of a device that could have a good and useful second life.

The data generated by the calculator is an approximation only. This calculation assumes that all devices are refurbished for reuse. It considers the estimated GHG footprint of manufacturing a new device purchased by a company in order to replace the one being disposed of at the end of the lease period under the assumption that the device is not refurbished for reuse. This calculation does not consider the net impact of the new device or the estimated GHG emissions caused during the use phase or throughout the remarketing process, such as transportation, refurbishing via our centres or via certified brokers and recycling

We’re currently developing an updated version of the calculator setting out the details of the methodology and assumptions involved. We expect this to be available in late 2023.

Sustainable Technology Lifecycle Management: the potential to make a difference, one device at a time.

*The source data for these calculations comes from our refurbishing centres, where we processed over 530 000 devices in 2020. We calculate CO2 avoidance by measuring the median CO2 emissions per product group. We base this on manufacturer data for the most popular devices we process within each product group. The e-waste avoidance calculation is based on the weight of each product group. We use the median weight of the most popular models we process in each group.