The Great PC Recycling Mess

This IDC Insight looks at the PC recycling sector from a wide angle, lists the challenges that the PC industry faces today and tomorrow, and ends with general recommendations. What happens when a PC reaches its end of life? When it can be reused, it undergoes a data sanitation and refurbishing process aimed at cleaning it and prolonging its life. When it cannot be reused, it is either demanufactured into separate components that find their way back to market or completely destroyed and turned into scrap.

These three options are likely to remain the only ones available to industry players. The question is not about these options but about the disorganized state of the recycling industry in the United States.