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…
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…
Indonesia's E-Waste Challenge Is Becoming More Urgent
Recent e-waste news gives Indonesia a useful reference point. India has received recycling capacity commitments of 850 kilotonnes, compared with an initial target of 270 kilotonnes, under a programme tied to critical minerals from e-waste, lithium-ion battery scrap, and other secondary materials. The same programme has…
A hard drive does not stop being a risk just because nobody is using it anymore.
That is the part many companies learn too late.
We buy retired hard drives, laptops, desktops, servers, and other IT hardware from companies that are clearing storage rooms, refreshing equipment, closing branches, or cleaning out old server racks. What…