Johannesburg – As corporations race to fulfil their 2030 sustainability commitments, delaying system refreshes solely raises power consumption, carbon emissions and digital waste.
Qrent gives an instantaneous answer, excessive‑high quality refurbished laptops and desktops that not solely scale back an organisation’s environmental footprint but additionally kick‑begins a real round‑economic system cycle.
Kwirirai Rukowo, Managing Executive at Qrent, says with InnoVent’s professional rebuild‑and‑reuse programme, each machine you lease is assured a second life, return after simply three to 4 years for full remanufacture, so that you meet UN SDG 12 targets now, not in 2030.
“By leasing and redeploying refurbished IT {hardware}, our purchasers can instantly report on diminished emissions and useful resource financial savings – as an alternative of deferring affect till gear finish‑of‑life in 5 or extra years.”
“Through our partnership with Circular Computing, we subject purchasers with licensed environmental‑affect certificates that quantify 4 key pillars of profit (e.g., carbon averted, water saved, landfill waste prevented, and important‑minerals conserved) for each refurbished laptop computer deployed,” he explains.
While sweating units li to seven or 9 years appear to align with sustainability objectives, it can lead to jeopardising the flexibility to extent effectively and successfully prolong the life span of such units by means of refurbishment.
Delaying refresh cycles stalls participation within the round economic system, resulting in stockpiles of idle gear and a larger threat of improper disposal and e-waste.
In distinction, Qrent’s mannequin ensures steady reuse: after three to 4 years in service, units are returned to InnoVent, the place they’re expertly refurbished to ‘like‑new’ situation, prepared for redeployment.
This accelerates the round loop, lowering materials extraction, manufacturing emissions and remaining‑stage disposal.
According to Gartner, organisations that incorporate refurbished units into managed mobility and IT‑asset methods acquire each sustainability and monetary advantages.
Gartner’s 2025 Managed Mobility Services Market Guide highlights that providing refurbished units can slash procurement prices by as much as 40 % whereas slicing scope‑3 emissions related to manufacturing new {hardware}.
Furthermore, Gartner’s “What CIOs Need to Know About Digital Sustainability” report discovered that digital‑sustainability initiatives, together with system refurbishing, are among the many high three most impactful levers for lowering IT’s carbon footprint, with potential to cut back general company emissions by 2 – 5 % within the first 12 months of adoption.
Long earlier than the UN codified the SDGs in 2015, Qrent’s founders recognised the environmental toll of discarded IT {hardware}.
Since its inception in 2003, the corporate has championed sustainable consumption, rescuing completely practical gear from landfill and providing it again into the market at a fraction of the fee.
This ethos aligns instantly with SDG 12’s goal to “considerably scale back waste era by means of prevention, discount, recycling and reuse” by 2030.
“Refurbishment isn’t nearly price financial savings. It’s about quick ESG affect, reporting transparency and creating a real round‑economic system cycle, in the present day, not 5 years down the road,” he concludes.
