12 Nov 2025
The third-quarter earnings reports from hardware, cloud, and lifecycle companies confirm that the decommissioning industry (decom) is expanding from hardware collection and recovery to the platforming of value creation through integration, compliance, and automation....
12 Nov 2025
Iron Mountain’s third quarter results confirm that the ITAD sector is evolving into a broader infrastructure and lifecycle services ecosystem. The company’s continued reconfiguration of its business mix—anchored by data centers, digital workflow, and asset lifecycle...
21 Oct 2025
The approaching end of Microsoft’s Windows 10 era will set in motion one of the most synchronized technology transitions the IT asset disposition (ITAD) and recycling sectors have ever witnessed. Between late 2026 and 2028, roughly 320 to 350 million laptops and...
25 Sep 2025
Aurubis is now operating a major recycling facility in Richmond, Georgia, its first big U.S. site. Built for $800 million, the plant can handle up to 180,000 metric tons of scrap and recover copper, nickel, tin, and precious metals from things like circuit boards and...
23 Sep 2025
At the end of each month, we at Compliance Standards, sift through the marketing of ITAD companies to identify interesting patterns and trends that may be taking place in the industry. Most of the months, things are stable with no major events, but in some months...
