Ezpcrecycling.com
What do I do with my old computer? No one wants it, even for free. Who will take my printer and other computer-related equipment?
I have had this junk in my basement for six months and at my job they have a storeroom full of dated computers. Can anyone help me dispose of this electronic waste responsibly? I know the chemicals in the computer and the lead in the monitor are harmful to our environment.
An estimated 500 million computers will become obsolete over the next three years. The main reasons are operating systems and the Internet.
How do we solve this problem? Enter Ezpcrecycling.com. Ezpcrecycling.com started in Sinking Spring, west of Reading, Pa. a few years ago as a recycler for old computer equipment.
The operation is a combination of trucking, logistics, sorting, palletizing, storing and shipping. We pick up your old equipment and bring it to our warehouse. The pick-ups have to be on a logistical route to conserve gas and time. At the warehouse, the materials are sorted by microprocessor and monitor size. Items are then palletized and shrink wrapped to prepare for shipping.
The equipment is then sold on the world market to be recycled into new computers. Absolutely nothing ends up in a landfill, nothing is wasted. Ezpcrecycling accepts full responsibility for all items collected. This responsibility includes the requirement to recycle all items in accordance with EPA guidelines and any other laws or regulations in place at the time of pick-up. We will furnish you with a disposition contract.
Expensewatch.com
Got Operating Expenses? Get Control On-Demand
Presented by Bill Vergantino, president and CEO, expensewatch.com
Executives know managing business expenses is a key to remaining profitable. Yet, until recently, there has been no affordable way for small-to-mid size companies to control expenses through automation.
Now, on-demand technology, also known as software as a service (SaaS) is changing how these companies manage expenses. It’s enabling them to cost-effectively automate numerous manual and time-consuming paper-based processes, while enforcing corporate spending policies and providing real-time visibility to spending against budget.
Consider that the typical US organization loses six percent of its annual revenue to fraud annually and that US corporations overpaid their suppliers by $5.25 billion last year. Add to this the billions of dollars spent on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and the need for expense control is clear.
In fact, companies reach a “tipping point” about controlling expenses for one or more of the following reasons:
- Current manual processes are too time consuming, resource intensive, error prone and costly
- Automation is required to enforce corporate spending policy
- Managers can’t make informed approval decisions
- Finance is unable to analyze spending to assess areas for improvement
- The company needs to address audit and compliance requirements, while reducing the cost and time to do so
The benefits of automated operating expense controls are enormous. Financial policy is embedded in a service and deployed throughout the organization at the point where expenses are incurred. Financial reports generated on the fly allow approvers to make educated, real-time decisions, enabling superior business performance.
Streamlined operating expense controls also cut the cost to process expense reports, purchase requests and invoices. They also reduce double payments, overpayments and late payments, while reducing opportunities for fraud.
Managers can supervise the financial workflow of their departments and see right away how their business unit is operating to budget. Employees get approvals faster and reimbursement checks sooner.
Finance teams gain control over operating expenses, and ultimately peace of mind. They are empowered to manage financial expectations rather than chase paper, prove authorizations or enforce company spending policy.
Compliance to financial regulatory policies, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is another key advantage to on-demand expense control automation. Real-time audit trails and solid internal controls significantly reduce the costs involved in achieving compliance standards.
Effective on-demand applications are Web-native, rather than retrofitted from legacy software to be Web-enabled. This development approach gives companies a number of advantages, including:
- Rapid deployment
- Reduced costs and minimal IT support
- Seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures
- Rapid adoption due to familiar Web interface
The real benefit to on-demand expense control though, is that controlling operating expenses becomes the company “norm” rather than the focus of running a business.
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