Knowledge pillar
ITAD Knowledge
ITAD processes, responsible asset handling and technology recovery. What the acronym means, what actually happens inside the process, and where the honest limits are.
ITAD in one paragraph
ITAD stands for IT asset disposition: the managed process of removing IT equipment from service and deciding what happens to it next. It covers collection, data considerations, evaluation, reuse, resale and — only at the end — recycling. TAR sits at the commercial end of that process as an international buyer of the reusable output.
Why the vocabulary matters
The words in this field are used loosely, and the looseness costs people money. "Disposal" and "disposition" are not the same thing. "Wiped" and "certified erased" are not the same thing. "Recycled" and "responsibly handled" are not the same thing. This pillar defines the terms as TAR uses them, and the glossary defines them formally.
In this pillar
Supporting articles
What is ITAD?
ITAD means IT asset disposition: the managed process of retiring IT equipment and deciding whether it is reused, resold, recovered for parts or recycled.
02What happens to old hard drives?
Retired hard drives are reused, resold, recovered for materials or destroyed. Which route a drive takes depends on whether it is still physically intact.
Put it into practice
Reading about it is one thing.
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