SUSTAINABILITY 15 www.managedITmag.co.uk support its M&A growth strategy. Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust saved £500,000 by not buying new thin client hardware when it expanded its VDI environment. e Encourage hybrid working to reduce commuting, which most people do by car. Cloud workspaces mean staff can work easily from anywhere. Research by IT carbon footprint consultancy PX3 shows that in the UK, working from home just two days a week collectively avoids 6.4 million tons of CO2e GHG emissions every year. r Start using approved and accredited IT Asset Disposal organisations to recycle hardware properly. This is a big hole in most organisations’ IT strategies, and in 2021 only 17.4% of e-waste was recycled responsibly [Source: IISD]. When choosing an ITAD partner, pick one with the right up-to-date certifications, including ADISA to standard 8.0 and ISO 14001 and ISO 27001, and view IT as a product, not waste. If IT is seen as a product, it can be collected, ethically refurbished & recycled and put back into the circular economy by an organisation like ethical ITAD Sunscreen IT. Just as businesses have a responsibility to properly consume and dispose of corporate-owned IT, so do individuals. Most people have an old laptop or two and various phones sitting in drawers and cupboards at home. Enlisting the support of a corporate ITAD is an obvious way to recycle those devices, too. Which leads me back to the beginning of this article and Adidas. The knee-jerk position in many IT departments is to throw away old IT and buy new – as if it were a pair of trainers. With the solutions we have today, this is no longer necessary. These tools are there to help consume IT in a more responsible way. We just have to get on and use them. The view from space IT and business consulting services firm CGI and the University of Leicester have marked their growing relationship by installing an eye-catching artwork by renowned Bristolbased artist Luke Jerram in the atrium of Space Park Leicester. The Conference of Parties (COP) Globe, a smaller sister of Gaia commissioned by CGI for display at COP27, is a 3 metrewide suspended globe showing the view of earth from outer space. Its installation coincides with the opening by CGI and the University of Leicester of a new Sustainability Innovation Lab that will enable CGI clients to accelerate their transition to a sustainable future in partnership with university professionals and students. The facility will also advance research undertaken under the aegis of CGI’s Sustainability Exploration and Environmental Data Science (SEEDS) initiative, of which the University of Leicester is a founding member, and provide a space for students and researchers to conduct and showcase their own research, attend seminars and workshops and collaborate on sustainability projects. cgi.com Free estimates Px3 Ltd is offering free access to its online End User Carbon Footprint Estimator so that organisations can estimate the GHG emissions generated by computing devices without having to invest in the company’s granular calculators and device comparison apps. Conceived and developed by Dr. Justin Sutton-Parker, CEO of Px3 and Research Fellow with the University of Warwick, the application enables organisations to quickly estimate the lifespan carbon footprint of end user computing devices such as notebooks, desktops, tablets and monitors as part of a sustainable IT strategy. px3.org.uk Hurd mentality Hurd is a free app for the 83% of employees surveyed by Kite Insights that say they want to act on climate change at work. Available on three platforms – Apple, Android and the web – Hurd gives workers an opportunity to anonymously rate their company’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis, share success stories from their workplace, access and use the platform’s free e-learning resources and join a community of like-minded people in other organisations. Mike Fenna, Chief Technology Officer of Hurd, said: “Hurd is a bit like Glassdoor for climate – it amplifies employee voices and improves transparency to help celebrate the best performing organisations and to help others learn from them.” https://hurd.world/ No more hoarding Virgin Media O2 has relaunched the O2 Recycle for Business service, enabling any company, regardless of its mobile provider, to trade in their old technology in exchange for cash back, credit towards new devices or a donation to charity. O2 research suggests UK businesses are hoarding almost 12 million unwanted and unused smartphones and tablets. Since its launch in 2009, O2 Recycle for Business has processed more than 3.8 million business and consumer devices, wiping them clear of data before 92% are either recycled or refurbished and resold as ‘like new’ products. https://business.o2recycle. co.uk/
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