Revisiting the Brexit Agreement
Now that the EU and UK have separated, we revisit what Brexit means for IT asset disposition (ITAD), data center decommissioning and recycling programs.
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Sims Lifecycle Services Joins Open Compute Foundation as a Platinum Member
The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation is a rapidly-growing, global community focused on sharing designs of data center products and best practices among companies. OCP encourages collaboration of ideas, specifications and other intellectual property, as a way to maximize innovation and reduce complexity in tech components for data centers. In a recent press release, The…
Ready for Brexit
Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) are continuing to monitor progress and review our preparations to ensure that we are ready for Brexit.
Data Privacy Regulations You Need to Know During ITAD
A company’s IT asset disposition (ITAD) plan must consider protection against various types of threats, as well as compliance with existing regulations.
WeCare Program: boosting computer literacy across Africa
The WeCare Program aims to increase computer literacy by making inexpensive used IT technology available to communities and disadvantaged schools.
Awareness Initiative: International E-Waste Day on October 14th 2019
SLS supports the International E-Waste Day to create awareness with consumers as well as businesses to aid what to do with unwanted e-waste.
2018: A Year in Review and Looking Ahead
Many companies need a secure and sustainable service to protect their data during the end-of-life process for IT equipment and electronics products.
Major ITAD Threats You Need to Eliminate in 2019
It is that time of year. A time to reflect and identify opportunities to improve going forward. It has been quite a year for the IT and electronics industry which is what makes asset disposal plans one to focus on in the New Year. Growing data security threats and increasing momentum in our progress toward…
Enhanced Electronics Recycling Services you Need in Dubai
Due to increasing demand for services in the United Arab Emirates, Sims Recycling Solutions, a leading provider of electronics recycling and IT asset disposition services, moved to a larger facility in Jebel Ali. The facility is four times larger, and is now fully operational. “We had outgrown our previous facility,” stated Stephen Phelan, managing director…
Information Management: Bracing for the immediate impact of the GDPR
Why you need a secure ITAD program to comply with GDPR. The one certainty with the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation that takes effect this week is that it is complicated. It seemed like there was plenty of time to prepare for compliance when the GDPR was adopted in April 2016, but numerous studies…