In the fragmented IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) sector, two recent announcements highlight the sustained investor interest in the industry. The first is Achieve Capital announcing a strategic investment into Vantage Point ITAD, a move aimed at scaling a regional...
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The Climate Disclosure Laws that will Impact the ITAD, E-Waste and Recycling Sectors
With the rapidly deteriorating environment and climate, pressure is mounting on global corporations and even small businesses to address their own environmental posture. Several regulations, passed or are under consideration, aim at forcing companies to be both transparent and make changes in the way they manage their business to lower climate risk.
Despite AI, PC Market to Remain Dormant This Year. Implications on ITAD Sector
The PC market this year is unlikely to recover from its weak performance of the past two years, as industry analysts initially predicted. What are the implications for the second for for the ITAD/recycling industries?
Deep Dive Into the Education Sector’s ITAD
By David Daoud: What would you guess is the number K-thru-12 students in the United States? The number is well over...
New AI Features to Create More Data Security Risks, to Boost Onsite Data Erasure Services
Three takeaways: Regulatory Environment Driving Data Erasure Growth: The growth of data erasure, particularly on-site...
Strategic Foresight: The Future ITAD Factory is Already Here
In my two decades tracking the IT asset disposition and electronics recycling sectors, I had the opportunity to visit...
April Traffic to ITAD vendors’ online platforms up 16%
Traffic to pure play ITADs online platforms rose by 16.09% in April compared to March 2024. The increase in traffic...
Regulators in Europe and US Push Against Greenwashing ESG and Sustainability in Investment Funds
In an era of ubiquitous social media and intense competition for investors’ money, many investment fund managers have...
A Look at the ITAD Industry’s Evolving ESG Reporting Tools
Companies that offer IT Asset Disposition services (ITAD), have long paid attention to reporting the outcome of their...
Dissecting Iron Mountain’s 1Q Financial Results: Is the ITAD Sector in Full Recovery Mode?
Full text under the video There aren’t too many companies that fit the profile of Iron Mountain in the IT asset...
The Politicization of ESG: How Various Business, Social & Political Groups have Divergent Views on ESG
Listen to the audio version here There has been a disturbing movement in sustainability investing lately that went...
Prelim data shows March marketing activity in ITAD down 0.27%, as most leading vendors experience reduced visits to their sites
Compliance Standards LLC says preliminary data shows that the month of March 2024 saw traffic to leading ITAD sites...
ITAD Vendor Reputation Rating Update & Assessing the Industry’s Readiness for ESG
ESG has become front and center in corporate strategy. Virtually all major companies, in particular the ones that are...
Questioning Lenovo’s ‘Sustainability-as-a-Service’ Offering
In 2020, an HP paper sought to make its case in favor of printing as a service. The argument was interesting. It...
February ITAD M&A and Transactions Update
The month of February features only three ITAD-related transactions in the United States and in Canada. Two were...
ITAD Enterprise Trends: Discussion with Cascade’s Neil Peters-Michaud
The conversation between Neil Peters-Michaud of Cascade Asset Management and David Daoud of Compliance Standards,...
ITAD M&A and Business Transactions: January 2024 Update
[See interactive map at the end of this analysis]: The month of January 2024 ended with eight ITAD-related M&A...
ITAD Sector’s 2024 Predictions
On the 20th of December 2023 Jared Paben of E-Scrap News and David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC held a prediction...