Why We Partnered with Rejoose — and What It Means for Every ITAD and Equipment Broker

Layer IQ and Rejoose are bringing environmental intelligence and materials-level data onto a single platform. Here's what that means in practice — and why it matters for every organization processing IT equipment.

Today we're announcing a data partnership with Rejoose that brings environmental intelligence and materials-level data into Asset IQ. I'm also in Atlanta this week giving a keynote at UNEDA on this exact topic — critical minerals, sustainability reporting, and why the equipment brokers and ITADs in that room are sitting on more value than they realize.

The timing isn't coincidental. After two weeks on the road — from ITAD Europe in Nice to the CSCC coalition and EU delegation in Phoenix — the same gap came up in every conversation: organizations need environmental and materials data on their IT equipment, and it doesn't exist in any usable, operational form.

This partnership closes that gap.

What Rejoose Actually Brings

Rejoose has two datasets. They do different things, and the distinction matters.

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) dataset covers active IT fleets. It's independently assured to ISAE 3000 standards and audited by EY. It spans up to ten years of hardware generations and over 18 million SKUs. This is the carbon intensity and material composition data that activity-based Scope 3 reporting demands.

If you're an enterprise reporting Scope 3 Category 1 and 2 emissions under CSRD or SB-253, this is the data you need for the equipment currently running in your environment. Not estimates. Not industry averages. Product-level, audit-grade environmental data for the specific hardware you own.

The Recycled and Resource dataset is the materials intelligence layer. Developed in alignment with EPA's WARM methodology, it enables component-level fingerprinting of IT assets — down to constituent materials, elements, and minerals. Copper, aluminum, gold, palladium, rare earth elements. Per device. Per component.

This is the dataset that turns routing decisions from financial-only into materials-aware. When Asset IQ evaluates whether a server should go through Door 3 (Materials Recovery), it's no longer just comparing bulk scrap rates against resale value. It's calculating the actual commodity value of what's inside that specific device — at LME and COMEX spot prices — based on its actual composition. And once the materials value is known, the platform routes that device to the best materials recovery expert in that geography, in alignment with applicable e-waste shipping regulations.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Here's a concrete example. An ITAD processes a batch of 500 mixed enterprise servers.

Before this partnership: Asset IQ routes each server based on resale demand, component markets, and bulk materials rates. Door 3 assets go out at per-kilogram scrap rates because nobody knows exactly what's in them.

After this partnership: Asset IQ knows the materials fingerprint of each device. Those 500 servers contain specific quantities of copper, aluminum, gold, palladium, and in some cases, rare earth elements in the hard drives' magnets. The platform calculates materials value using live commodity prices — not flat scrap rates. Routing decisions shift. Some assets that looked like scrap are now worth routing to specialized recovery because the REE content alone justifies it.

The $86 million in materials value we identified in one mid-size ITAD's annual volume — the number on our homepage — came from exactly this kind of analysis. Equipment that was being sent out at bulk rates, without anyone knowing what was actually inside it.

Why This Matters for Equipment Brokers

I'm at UNEDA this week because this isn't just an ITAD story. The 300+ used network equipment dealers in that alliance collectively sell over $2 billion in pre-owned gear annually. They're making buy/sell decisions on networking equipment every day — routers, switches, firewalls, access points — and none of them have materials-level intelligence on what they're trading.

That matters for two reasons.

First, materials value is real and it's being left on the table. Equipment that's below resale threshold gets scrapped. The broker takes a per-unit or per-pound disposal fee. But the actual materials inside that equipment — the copper in the circuit boards, the palladium in the capacitors, the gold in the connectors — have commodity value that's never calculated, never captured, never factored into the economics.

Second, their enterprise customers are about to start asking questions that brokers can't answer today. Under CSRD, SB-253, and SBTi frameworks, enterprises need to report on the environmental impact of their IT purchases and dispositions. When a Fortune 500 company asks their equipment broker "What's the carbon intensity of this refurbished Cisco switch?" — the broker who can answer that question with audit-grade data has an advantage that no one else in the room can match.

That's what Rejoose's LCA dataset enables. Product-level environmental data on equipment already in circulation. Not new purchases. The existing fleet and the existing secondary market.

The Bigger Picture

Two converging pressures are driving this. The Rejoose press release frames them well:

The first is regulatory. Over 14,000 companies have SBTi commitments. CSRD is phasing in across roughly 50,000 companies in the EU. SB-253 covers 4,000+ companies doing business in California. All of them need activity-based environmental reporting — not the industry-average estimates most Scope 3 disclosures rely on today.

The second is strategic. The critical minerals embedded in deployed IT equipment exist in higher concentrations than in active mining operations. AI is compressing refresh cycles, which means more equipment is retiring faster, which means more materials are flowing through the disposition pipeline. Recovering those materials is no longer just environmentally responsible — it's a matter of supply chain resilience.

The Rejoose partnership gives Asset IQ the data foundation to address both simultaneously. Environmental intelligence for reporting. Materials intelligence for recovery. On the same platform, from the same data, for the same equipment.

What Comes Next

This is the first of several ecosystem partnership announcements. Layer IQ's approach has always been that isolated players solving their own problems on one platform produces outputs none of them could create alone. Rejoose is the environmental and materials data layer. Bloom ESG is the verification and registry layer. Tracenable is the Scope 3 compliance data layer. ECG Solutions is the audit layer.

Each partner brings a dataset or capability. Asset IQ connects them into a single operational layer — so that an ITAD processing a job doesn't need to know about ISAE 3000 assurance or EPA WARM methodology or LME spot pricing. They just see the routing recommendation, the value breakdown, the carbon opportunity, and the materials intelligence. All of it, per asset, in minutes.

That's the infrastructure this industry has been asking for. I heard it in Nice. I heard it in Phoenix. I'm hearing it in Atlanta this week. And now it's here with Asset IQ.

Read the full Rejoose press release →

Mike DiPetrillo is CEO and Founder of Layer IQ.