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Introduction to Sustainable Asset Management Solutions
Sustainable asset management solutions, an r2 certified company, leverages the advantage of information technology to ensure that the business operates in an economically and environmentally sustainable approach. The issue of e-waste is just one element of an organization’s operations, but it needs to be tackled by businesses as an integral element of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG). In reality, producing a product has, in theory, been an increasing practice since the mid-1990s that requires stakeholders of electronics producers to take responsibility for their products at the end of their useful life. Based on real-world solutions to e-waste management, this chapter aims to give readers an overall picture of how such asset management solutions look in the sustainable management of e-waste suitable for any geographical area, what benefits these asset management solutions give to the partners who participate in the product life cycle and what added value to sustainable development these types of activities may have.
After reaching the end of life or technological maturity stage of electronic products, the increasing amount of electronic waste (e-waste) is a type of waste that presents a significant challenge to many countries. As the rate of obsolescence increases as new products rapidly shape the societies, in combination with global economic trends, such as emerging markets for electronic products and increasing levels of urbanization and high consumerism, the challenge grows more pronounced. In general, any type of electronic device with a plug or a battery can be described as e-waste. Both the generation rate and the total quantities are expected to rise over the next many years, probably at an increasing speed. In this context, when addressing the common causes of environmental problems, more attention has increasingly focused on how sustainable asset management solutions can be applied to business operations. Companies must devise successful strategies to continue to be competitive to manage this risk and to take advantage of related opportunities.
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R2 Certification: Ensuring Responsible E-Waste Management
The genuine responsible used electronics management providers get the prestigious R2 certification and follow a standardized process. The tight qualification process ensures companies abide by the stringent, quality processes to process the e-waste the trusted way. The R2:2013 qualification requires a company to declare their Materials Flow, Focus Materials Management Strategies, Risk Management, General Facility, Facility Security, Data Destruction, Data Sanitization, Testing and Reuse, Focus Materials Downstream Recycling, and Lamp Handling. Additionally, it has to maintain the Supply Chain Management, Export of Focus Materials, Management System, etc. residence, transboundary, due diligence, and CRT Glass Management – the bulletproof defense that makes these e-waste guys stay ahead in the race. The general guidelines of an R2 Certification require an e-waste recycler to operate within the laws imposed by the country of operation and avoid unsound management of end-of-life electronics.
Sustainable asset management comes under the spotlight like never before. Companies now understand the importance of reducing and responsibly disposing of their used electronics. Consequently, they now pack up their used electronics and hand them to the responsible e-waste recycling company – R2 certified. Companies in Singapore now do this through hiring the services of professional e-waste management companies. E-waste companies in Singapore play a big role in achieving effective and sustainable asset management solutions; they use quality services in recycling and disposing of their used electronics. They even help to claim the rebate from the National Environmental Agency of Singapore.
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SAMS: Comprehensive E-Waste Solutions for Businesses
There is still a demand for reliable ITAD services in Singapore as the e-waste recycling landscape in Singapore is not unwelcome to newcomers in the market due to low entry barriers and capital expenditure, but ITAD adds another layer of regulations and confidentiality. With increasing security threats both in the physical and digital world, corporate clients are becoming more cautious about who they engage. SAMS’s well-rounded solution addresses these challenges as it provides a full EV chain, including secure data wiping and physical destruction, in line with EMA’s requirement of the hard drives used in data centres. After an encouraging 2018, we have, in line with NEA’s requirements, implemented a tracking system and has successfully launched business for this unique approach. In terms of logistics, SAMS handles all clients’ requirements including collection of items at the clients’ premises, importing the e-waste to our R2 certified facilities for proper recycling, and also exporting items out from Singapore.
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Data Center Decommissioning in Singapore: Sustainable Approach
Enterprises are often in a hurry to decommission their outdated/offline data centers because they slow down certain other processes or release resources that can be used to speed up other development processes. However, when getting rid of the data center, data center security must always be handled as well, regardless of whether those actions are audited or not and have been done after full erasure and authorization by auditors for the equipment. The service provides several ways for the clean-out progress, also up to the chain and individual equipment level. If requested, the full service also includes as-is and removing disks and tapes for full adherence to data center decommissioning requirements. Overall, using the service from the business idea to the actual progress will help reduce the time to meet data center objectives, and using and managing fewer professionals and companies will also be a reason for a great cost-benefit ratio. The Clean-Out Service ensures that all equipment is reused or recycled in an environmentally responsible manner. This provides assurance against waste service risks and the risk of failure in the target practice of unidentified waste employees against the client.
E-waste management in Singapore is at an average developed country level, following the increase of internet usage in the last 20 years. Still, despite the government’s efforts, Singapore doesn’t have a circular system regarding data centers. The IMM (Investment Management and Maintenance) Clean-Out Service offers a unique management service and the possibility for individual and enterprise-level users to gather and dispose of their old, outdated, and unnecessary IT devices, cables, cardboards, and other e-waste. This helps to cut down the time spent finding the right professionals for the work at hand and also ensures segregated and environmentally friendly waste utilization. The service accepts all kinds of e-waste, such as old PCs, laptops, and monitors, servers, peripherals, networking devices, cables, connectors, and other IT-related materials from enterprise and user levels. The service will be using existing companies for waste utilization for mixed waste from data center clean-out. We offer data center decommissioning in Singapore for all types of businesses.
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Conclusion: Partner with Sustainable Asset Management Solutions
A collective and sustainable strategy for material circularity under the following visual is indispensably assured by a stakeholder who is aware of cornerstone principles: Public regulators are concerned with negative externalities, whereas Producer Responsibility Organizations (PRO) practice legal, economic, and moral responsibilities with the law enforced by the public regulators to manage e-waste. E-waste Reuse Service Centers (ERSC)/Recycling facilities manage operational efficiency so that the battery electrolyte and cathode are not in contact without a proper schedule compliance for ergonomics of EEE products and certainly an EPR Cost Assurance which correctly tabulates the Generate, Collect, and Recycle numbers as zero. ConfigureServices for electronic equipment (sector) ECOs meet the market requirements and restricted obsolescence of innovations delivery/SUB-Pack Sales by PUBR (Offset) Operations mandatorily exhibit 100% sustainability of EEE products/services.
Sustainable Asset Management Solutions (SAMS) is providing one-stop e-waste management services in both secondary and post-consumer e-waste management systems in Singapore – from refurbishing, remarketing, reusing, and recycling, which are a necessity and an essential requirement to comply with national regulations of Singapore. E-waste is mounting exponentially, and it is significant to manage e-waste in a circular economy standpoint amidst technology revolutions. Sustainability at SAMS and e-waste recycling solutions are well aligned and positioned. E-waste management services are for companies and organizations who are looking to get Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance certification from the National Environmental Agency (NEA) in Singapore. Let us see how partnering with SAMS for e-waste solutions will make a flourishing EPR compliance certification for your companies and what is that computed number you will be managing with us!
