Remarketing vs. Recycling

Maximize value from retired IT assets

When IT assets reach end-of-use, what you do next can have a big impact on your bottom line, environmental footprint, and compliance standing. Iron Mountain helps you make the most of every device. With deep expertise in IT asset remarketing and responsible e-waste recycling, we tailor the optimal end-of-life strategy for your retired IT assets — maximizing financial return and environmental impact, all while ensuring uncompromised data security.

A “reuse first” approach to ITAD

Our reuse-first approach to ITAD delivers measurable value— extending the life and utility of IT hardware, lowering total cost of ownership, and significantly reducing carbon emissions and e-waste.

While secure e-waste recycling remains an essential part of our process, it is reserved for devices without market value or for the physical destruction of data-bearing media, based on your requirements.

You choose the path: maximize value recovery through the secure sanitization and resale of both data storage media and non-data-bearing devices, or opt for physical data destruction with remarketing limited to non-data-bearing assets.

The Iron Mountain advantage

• Value recovery: Generate financial return from retired assets through resale
• Cost control: Lower the total cost of ownership of IT equipment
• Sustainability: Reduce your carbon and e-waste footprint significantly by prioritizing reuse
• Data security: Eliminate end-of-life data exposure risk with ADISA-certified, NIST 800-88 compliant data sanitization or physical data destruction
• Audit-ready reports: Improve transparency with full chain of custody and serialized certificates of destruction
• Multi-channel remarketing: Maximize value recovery with access to global buyers and marketplaces