Millions of storage devices are being shredded each year, even though they could be reused. “You don’t need an engineering degree to understand that’s a bad thing,” says Jonmichael Hands.
He is the secretary and treasurer of the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI), a partnership of technology companies promoting the secure reuse of storage hardware. He also works at Chia Network, which provides a blockchain technology.
Chia Network could easily reuse storage devices that large data centres have decided they no longer need. In 2021, the company approached IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) firms, who dispose of old technology for businesses that no longer need it. The answer came back: “Sorry, we have to shred old drives.”
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