The Matcha Initiative
Join us- Buy repairable and upgradeable products. Laptops are harder to repair or upgrade than desktop PCs. Look for a user-replaceable battery as an absolute minimum, and ideally replaceable storage drive and RAM as well.
- Choose durable products:
- Buy refurbished products: because of the significant carbon footprint of making a computer, its lifetime should ideally be extended for as long as possible. If you can’t repair an old machine, you can extend the lifetime of another by buying a second-hand or refurbished computer.
You can create some quick wins to curb your digital footprint by providing employees with laptops instead of desktops, it consumes less electricity. Allow them to use it also for their personal use, it will decrease the "over-equipment" (doubling pro & personal devices) ratio, thus consuming less raw material and energy for over-production.
47%
of the digital world CO2e emissions are due to consumers equipments (25% due to data centers & 28% due to infrastructures).
(Ademe - Sept 2019)
50% less
carbon footprint by extending your computer life from 2 to 4 years, as 80% of carbon footprint comes from manufacturing.
(Ademe - Sept 2019)
Learn more about computer manufacturing process and its footprint.
Dell Factory Outlet provides refurbished Dell computers, monitors, desktops stations and workstations, servers and storage according to stocks.
Certified refurbished products are previously open/used products and come with a 1 year warranty. These products are submitted to a careful refurbishing process to achieve quality and performance standards.
To contact them, engage conversation through their "chat to buy" button.
ElectronicsCrazy is an online electronics marketplace in Singapore.
They deal in ten most popular categories including mobile phones, computers and laptops, cameras, network switches, smart power sockets...
They have a wide range of certified refurbished computers and other refurbished items.
PC Dreams restores second-hand computers, smartphones and other devices to put them back on the market.
To reduce electronic waste, they either refurbish the devices for sale, donate them to charities or recycle them with recycling partners.They also provide other services like logistics or online retail solutions.
Reebelo consists of a team of experienced people who have expertise in electronics and second-hand business.
Reebelo buy used electronics from business partners as well as from private individuals for their repair team to renew the electronics and test them, before they put them back on sale on their marketplace.
On top of that, Reebelo takes care of planting a tree for every device that they sell to make the world a greener and a cooler place.
