9. Ireland rolls with remanufactured
IT Channel Oxygen reported in June that the Irish government agreed a deal to procure up to 60,000 remanufactured devices.
Circular Computing and Ireland’s Office of Government Procurement announced they had agreed a “ground-breaking” partnership to supply 18 Irish government departments with remanufactured HP, Dell and Lenovo notebooks over four years. All the devices will be delivered by reseller Green IT.
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It is the first such procurement deal by an EU state.
Talking to IT Channel Oxygen, Stephen Haskew, Group Director of Sustainability at Circular Computing, characterised the landmark partnership – which is worth up to €30m – as a “market movement”.
“This is the moment sustainable IT has been waiting for,” he said.
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