Rich Kenny wears two hats. He is the sustainability and research director at TechBuyer, and managing director at Interact.

TechBuyer is a global specialist in buying, refurbishing and selling enterprise IT equipment. They believe repurposing IT equipment is key to reducing one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. The waste stream known as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).

Interact is a sustainable start-up using machine learning to recommend the best vendor-neutral hardware choices by projecting cost, energy use, and carbon emissions over a variable timeline of 1-10 years. The tool was developed through a research partnership between University of East London and Techbuyer, the results of which have been peer reviewed and published in IEEE.

Rich has recently been awarded Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Engineering at London South Bank University. This is recognition for the world leading research coming out of TechBuyer and Interact.

In this episode, Rich discusses how businesses can optimise their IT suite to reduce costs, energy and carbon. He talks about the challenges we face with IT equipment and gives some great recommendations for business leaders.

If you're wanting to learn more, give it a listen and let me know what you think.

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