Your old laptop may still contain customer records, ID scans, payroll files, passwords and years of email. The next person who gets hold of it may only need to type one sentence to start finding them.
I have an ordinary laptop, an AI coding agent and access to your old computer. I am not a…
When a company clears two server racks or replaces 300 laptops, the job usually starts with a simple question: who will take the equipment?
The answer matters. Those machines may still contain employee records, customer information, financial documents, login credentials, internal emails and system configurations. Some units may still have resale value. Others may contain…
Over the past few days, two developments have shown that waste management is receiving attention from very different parts of Indonesia.
In Bali, Danantara Indonesia began work on a waste-to-energy plant in Pedungan, Denpasar. The Rp3 trillion facility is designed to process around 1,500 tonnes of municipal waste per day when it starts operating, which…
A recent recycling-centre fire in the UK was linked to a damaged lithium-ion battery from a disposable vape. Small device. Wrong bin. Fire crews called in.
Around the same time, a KGMU study reported higher health risks for people living or working near e-waste dumping and recycling areas, including respiratory issues, neurological problems, skin diseases,…
That sentence still sounds strange, even in 2026.
Lonestar Data Holdings, a Florida-based company, has been one of the main names behind the idea. In 2025, it sent a small lunar data center payload through Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander mission. The payload weighed about 1 kilogram and carried 8 terabytes of SSD storage. It…
The “TB” in 18TB stands for terabyte.
In a decommissioned hard drive, it can also feel uncomfortably close to “time bomb.”
That is not because the drive is dangerous by default. It is because of what it may still contain after it has been removed from service.
A single 18TB hard drive can hold an…
There comes a point in every organization when the storage room fills with outdated laptops, unused routers, and aging work devices, and someone finally decides it is time to clear everything out. What many teams do not realize is that once a company contacts a professional buyback provider, a highly structured workflow begins behind the…