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Going Green with Refurbished Laptops

Shaan Randhawa • Jun 21, 2023

How investing in refurbished tech can turn your business eco-friendly

According to the Environmental Audit Committee, each year the UK produces an average of 24.9kg of electrical waste per year, per person. This means that despite being one of the smaller countries, we’re still producing a massive amount of waste.

With figures like this, it’s normal to begin to wonder whether there’s a way to cut down on your own digital waste. The good news is that Vibrant has the perfect solution to your problem: refurbished tech.

What is refurbed hardware, and how can it help your business?

Refurbished hardware is the most efficient way for small businesses to address their corporate social responsibility!

Let's say a corporate company buys a brand-new laptop. On average, a corporate will keep this hardware for around three years, (the average lifetime of a laptop). Inevitably, it starts slowing down, the battery might drain itself too quickly, and an upgrade is needed.

The normal course of action is that the laptop would then be discarded, and end up in a landfill. The laptop would become obsolete, and unable to be recycled from this point.

However, Vibrant has a solution to prevent that from happening. Instead of allowing the old tech to be thrown into landfills, we’ve been refurbishing them, which enables the laptops to have an extended lifespan.

The advantages of refurbed hardware

By swapping out older parts of the hardware (such as memory, hard drives, etc.) for higher-performing parts, Vibrant Networks have been able to salvage older laptops and source them to businesses in Walsall, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and the West Midlands. Because of these eco-friendly laptops, these businesses have benefited from hardware that's half the cost of new devices, and high-speed laptops that come with a standard one-year warranty. In some cases, keyboards and plastics are also renewed. Not only this, but the faster-running laptops are more energy efficient , meaning the overall carbon footprint of the laptop (and the business!) is lowered . This method of refurbishing laptops also makes high-quality tech more accessible to all types of businesses from SMEs to larger corporations. This will then improve local businesses and communities by being able to access current technology.

On top of this, there’s another obvious benefit: recycling laptops and spare parts mean that less usable hardware is ending up in landfills .

With the statistic listed above, less tech being wasted is definitely a huge thing for a business’s green initiative.

Want to go green? Vibrant Networks can help!

Vibrant’s team of experienced technicians are well versed in rebuilding the bones of laptops, tablets, and plenty of other hardware. If your business is looking to invest in high-quality refurbed tech, either call our Walsall helpdesk on: 01922 612387, or email at: info@vibrant-networks.co.uk.

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