Disruption

Rising fuel and freight costs from the war in Iran are tightening margins in an ITAD business model built on moving material, while surging prices for memory and storage are simultaneously increasing the value of server and component recovery. Those pressure points, combined, are pushing logistics‑heavy, “haul and shred” providers to the edge and giving a relative advantage to ITAD firms that can monetize memory‑rich assets, document ESG benefits, and explain, in hard numbers, how they help customers manage cost, risk, and refresh timing.