Stone Group has demanded that IT resellers do more to combat the problem of e-waste and has penned an open letter to the government calling for intervention to tackle the issue. The reseller argues that “urgent action” is needed to reduce the problem.
In an open letter director, Tim Westbrook said that there needed to be some real guidance from Government to sort out the problem.
The letter calls for waste from electrical and electronic equipment compliance to become mandatory for all equipment resellers. It said that resellers must demonstrate that they work with a fully accredited zero to landfill partner if they cannot take ownership of the IT asset disposal process.
Westbrook wants IT resellers to be forced to make both the volume of equipment collected from customers and what has been done with it, available to the public each year.
