Apto Solutions launches environmental impact reporting tool

Apto Solutions, a company in the IT asset disposition (ITAD) industry, has launched its new environmental impact reporting tool that is designed to assist with environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. The tool, an expansion of the company’s proprietary Pulse platform, allows clients to see the amount of greenhouse gas emissions saved from reuse and recycling activities with Apto.

Apto says it wanted the tool to build on the company’s reputation for tracked and verified circular processes.

“We wanted to take our existing reporting to the next level and be able to show our customers in real-time through Apto Pulse, the positive emissions offsets and circularity data,” says Apto CEO Jeffrey Jones. “Rather than publishing this information annually, we believe that with new ESG reporting requirements, our customers can use this data for their ESG and sustainability reports on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis.”

Powered by the e-Stewards global impact calculator, the tool provides a detailed breakdown by weight of each material type recovered as well as toxic materials diverted from landfill. It then displays continually updated data on emissions savings, which Apto says is crucial since ESG reporting guidance is still forthcoming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with type and frequency of the ESG reports yet to be determined. Additionally, Apto says the tool can provide customers with their data based on their own specified date range.

“This is a highly dynamic time for ESG compliance, with countless variables that could emerge as the standards become more concrete, from reduced GHG emissions to toxic materials diverted. This tool empowers our customers by putting the data right at their fingertips so that they can use it however they’d like in ESG and sustainability reports to show the positive impact of their ITAD programs against their other emissions,” says Jones. “And it’s all tied directly into Apto Pulse, so the calculations happen dynamically and are always readily available. No additional work needs to be performed.”

The launch of this tool follows Apto’s recent release of their 2021 circularity and ESG report, which was part of an effort to track and map the company's recycling processes and document emission savings to help build better blueprints for circularity and ESG reporting.