Green Formula

to Sustain our

Digital Life

By Ahmed Buhazza

Current Life

Green Telecom

Final Destination!
Landfill: The burial of waste in regulated disposal facilities.

What to do?!

Green ICT approaches

Green of IT - Framework

Green by IT - Framework

Green by IT

Facing the Challenges?!

General Challenges
Lack of national scale and regional Green IT Strategy; Lack of incentives, policy and legislation for green practice and e-waste management; Inadequate awareness and public education on the smart use of IT to protect the environment;

Absence of national infrastructure for formal recycling;

Poor corporate responsibility by the industry;

ICT Age Factors

Brand, Equipment Quality & Configuration Supplier Support and Spare parts availability Warranty Period Software/System update, version Requirements User & Business Demands

Usage, Carefulness, Damages

Benefits of Asset Management System

& Refresh Period

Inventory Control Total Cost of Ownership Software License Compliance Operational Monitoring and Control Decision Making about IT Resource Deployment Zero-day Employee Provisioning Standardization and Compliance More Informed Purchasing Business Resumption
Reducing operating costs (10%-40% cost savings of operating cost) Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis UK 2007

IC T equipment life-cycle
Procurement Disposal

Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis UK 2007

Waste Refuse

ZeroWaste SAs waste management hierarchy www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au

Disposal options
IT conforms to the European Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) to dispose of its IT equipment.

Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis UK 2007

Refining Methods
Clear
use software or hardware products to overwrite storage space on the media with non-sensitive data.

Purge
Degaussing is exposing the magnetic media to a strong magnetic field in order to disrupt the recorded magnetic domains.

Destroy
Disintegration, Pulverization, Melting, and Incineration Shredding.

Legislation
Environmental Protection The Environmental Act (1994), Section 34: Duty of care and The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991 Hazardous Waste Regulations (2005) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (2006) Electrical Safety The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

Data Protection & Security Data Protection Act (1998) Official Secrets Act (1989)

Generate Better Value

Smart Aging (Refresh Period)
Define the optimum age for your corporate disposal (3 to 5 years) Consider Reducing the costs of resale and increasing resale revenues; Dispose whenever is practical and cost effective Contract for buy-back revenue sharing, zero-cost or at cost, Avoid the time when
to have no value; to be unserviceable or beyond economical repair; or that the disposal cost is higher than the likely return.

Smart ICT Procurement

Awareness of the longer life items and commercial market values for used equipments

Effective ICT Asset Management and Disposal Policy

Avoid the Wider Risk

Environmental Protection
Awareness about relevant legislation Oversight of the disposal agents practices

Consider the use of environmentally sustainable methods of destruction/recycling.

Data protection and security

Oversight of Data wiping standard Oversight over approaches being used by the disposal agent

Electrical safety Check

ICT equipments before resale or donation

Replace Cost by Benefits

Cost Benefits Cost Benefits

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. Robert South

Achieve Sustainable Environment