Asset management & E-waste: Features

What happens to a notebook once it goes out of service?

Green has never been sexier. It's the new black, and it sells.

Efforts to develop a national e-waste management scheme continue to stir up debate within the industry about where responsibility lies.

Some channel players have already adopted green business practices and are now driving them into their customer environments.

Awareness of the impact IT has on the environment is growing rapidly but, as with all matters of public concern, government has a lead role to play in setting an example.

Spurred by business needs as well as environmental concerns, green IT projects blossomed in datacenters and on desktops throughout the world in 2007.

There is no topic hotter than global warming. After all, Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in raising awareness, his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar, and terms like "carbon footprint" are now part of the common lexicon.