What Really Happens to Your Old IT Equipment After It Leaves the Building

Most organizations don't spend much time thinking about what happens to a laptop once it's decommissioned, until something goes wrong. A hard drive turns up somewhere it shouldn't be, improperly wiped. A batch of old servers ends up with an unregistered scrap dealer instead of a certified recycler. A compliance audit suddenly asks for documentation nobody thought to keep. That's the exact moment IT asset disposition, or ITAD, stops being some background task and becomes a genuine business risk.