ITAD and the Rise of Right-to-Repair: What You Need to Know

As right-to-repair legislation gains momentum, it’s reshaping how organizations manage IT asset disposition (ITAD). Once focused solely on secure destruction and recycling, ITAD now plays a strategic role in asset recovery, cost optimization, and sustainability. What exactly does the right-to-repair movement mean for your IT strategy, and how can you turn it to your advantage?

Let’s break it down.

What Is Right-to-Repair and Why Does It Matter to Enterprise IT?

The right-to-repair movement promotes consumer and business access to tools, parts, and manuals needed to repair electronic devices, without depending solely on manufacturers. While the push began with consumer electronics and agricultural equipment, it’s now making waves in enterprise IT.

Legislation is emerging across the U.S. and globally, requiring manufacturers to make it easier—and legal—for organizations to repair their own equipment. These new laws are reshaping how companies approach asset retirement. Currently, Right to Repair legislation has been introduced in all 50 U.S. states.

Why it matters to you:

You may no longer need to dispose of end-of-life equipment as quickly, or at all. Instead, you can repair, refurbish, and re-deploy assets internally or through a trusted ITAD provider.

How Right-to-Repair Is Changing the ITAD Landscape

Right-to-repair laws are pushing enterprises to rethink ITAD strategies. A circular economy model focused on reuse and repair has replaced the linear “buy, use, dispose” model.

Here’s how ITAD is evolving:

• More assets are repairable, allowing organizations to extract more value before recycling.
• Regulatory compliance now includes repair rights, influencing procurement and disposition policies.
• Sustainability expectations from stakeholders and customers align with reuse-first strategies.

NCS Global’s approach to ITAD already embraces this shift. By prioritizing repair, secure resale, and parts harvesting, we help partners comply with new laws while increasing asset ROI and sustainability metrics.

Strategic Opportunities: Extend Asset Life and Maximize Value Recovery

Right-to-repair represents a business opportunity.

With the right strategy, you can:

• Delay procurement cycles by extending equipment life
• Harvest usable parts to reduce support and warranty costs
• Reuse or resell assets to recover value
  

At NCS Global, our Lifecycle Management and Out-of-Warranty Parts Services are built for this exact moment. Clients who implement these services see:

• Up to 30% reduction in procurement and maintenance spend
• 2–3 additional years added to asset life
• Enhanced sustainability outcomes

Why Secure Data Handling Still Reigns Supreme

Even as laws encourage reuse, data security and compliance remain non-negotiable.

Whether you’re repairing equipment for redeployment or reselling it externally, you need certified, tamper-proof data destruction. At NCS Global, we use EcoErase, our proprietary, NIST-compliant software that offers:

• On-site and off-site data erasure
• Flexible wipe cycles
• Chain-of-custody reporting
• Physical destruction or degaussing when needed

Repair doesn’t mean risk when data is handled right.

How NCS Global Helps You Align ITAD with Right-to-Repair Policies

If your ITAD program is still focused solely on destruction, you’re leaving value and compliance on the table.

NCS Global partners with clients to implement repair-first, reuse-forward ITAD solutions that meet today’s legal, environmental, and financial standards. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Compliant, secure data destruction
• Sustainability metrics for ESG reporting
• Portal technology for real-time tracking
• Revenue-sharing resale models that recover value
• Custom reverse logistics to redeploy or resell with ease

Turn Compliance into Competitive Advantage

Right-to-repair is more than a compliance issue. It’s an opportunity to optimize costs, recover more value, and reduce environmental impact. It takes the right ITAD partner to make it work.

Let NCS Global help you build an ITAD strategy that’s future-ready, fully compliant, and financially smart.