Hand held terminal disposal is a key way for companies to meet their green targets and contribute more positively to the environment.
Working alongside a specialist provider of hand held terminal disposal solutions – who can also properly dispose of and recycle other electronic equipment that your business no longer needs – can help companies to reduce their wider carbon footprint and impact the environment in a more positive way.
Why is a service such as hand held terminal disposal so important, though? Like most other pieces of electronic equipment, handheld terminals such as scanners, mobile computers, mini printers and more are full of extremely small intricate parts and metals that aren’t very environmentally-friendly.
If you’re an organisation that has a lot of handheld electronic equipment to help you in the day-to-day running of the business – a logistics firm that handles a lot of deliveries a day, or a larger retailer that needs to collect and transmit data regularly – then it’s more likely than not that you’ll often be replacing your handheld electronic equipment.
That could be for a number of reasons; they get dropped and damaged, their software may corrupt for whatever reason, a newer model may have come out or any other change in circumstances that means old units need to be disposed of.
For many, hand held terminal disposal means just throwing it in the trash with the rest of the day’s rubbish that’s been accumulated. That may be for a number of reasons, too; a lack of understanding of how harmful that can be for the environment, or just that it’s quicker and easier for example.
As we’ve mentioned though, disposing of handheld electronic equipment – or any electronic equipment for that matter – in that way just sends it to landfill. Over time, harmful chemicals from batteries leak out alongside harmful metals and other materials that will be detrimental to the environment around it and the wider planet.
Hand held terminal disposal provided by an expert and trusted provider in the sector negates all that. Your partner will work with you to dispose of your old devices in an environmentally-friendly way thanks to them being fully WEEE-compliant and from the partnerships they’ve built with others.
Your partner will refine materials in each and every piece of technology – handheld or otherwise – that you wish to properly dispose of. They will focus on matters such as stripping equipment to remove any precious metals harmful to the environment, to minimise anything that potentially will go to landfill.
There are more than environmental concerns to consider when you wish to dispose of handheld equipment, too. You may think a mobile scanner is just that – something to point at a barcode to register a product.
They’re much more than that. Mobile hardware are essentially small computers that can also retain data and information, meaning that if you just throw handheld terminals away to landfill, they may still be full of sensitive company and customer information, meaning you may be breaching your data privacy and GDPR commitments.
The right partner will wipe, shred and destroy the equipment properly to make sure that isn’t an issue, and to keep your brand compliant.
