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When
selling and disposing of the old and unwanted computer equipment within your
organisation, it doesn't seem at first that there are many things to
consider, other than finding someone who would pay the highest price to take
them away, or consign some of them to server duty.
But the recent fall in new equipment prices, the rising costs of land fill
tax, the enormous volumes of unwanted PC equipment, the Data Protection Act,
WEEE and increasing EEC legislation over ecological disposal has radically
changed the way that we must all view the situation regarding PC disposal.
Did you know for example that more than 52 million PC's were sold in Western
Europe in 2005 and that 5 million old ones required disposal in the UK alone
during 2005? As a result, it should
come as no surprise to anyone to learn of the rocketing costs of disposal as
legislation and taxation is introduced.
Disposing of equipment by selling it on is becoming less and less likely
because of the amount needing spending on the collection and decommissioning
of equipment. Where once there was a residual value, there is fast becoming a
residual disposal cost. Did you know that in a recent report from
consultants, the Gartner Group, the true cost of disposing of an unwanted PC
was reported to be up to £150 per PC?
There
are many far more important things and costs to think about these days than
simply achieving the highest bid, such as the collection costs, the erasure
of data from the hard drive, the liaison with your asset register and
ecological disposal.
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