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Feature · Carbon · ITAD · updated May 19, 2026

Scope-3 IT, finally reportable.

Carbon-optimal refresh forecasting, by-college emissions attribution, and an ITAD disposition ledger. Built on documented manufacturer LCAs and EPA eGRID factors, attributable to the unit that holds the asset, audit-grade for AASHE STARS. Sustainability your CFO can defend and your sustainability office can publish.

Scope-3
IT emissions, ledgered
eGRID
EPA 2022 grid factors
STARS
AASHE-aligned export
4-route
ITAD disposition ledger
Why sustainability belongs in ITAM

Two ways to report Scope-3 IT.

A separate sustainability dashboard

Numbers nobody can trace back to a laptop.

Your sustainability office spent six months building a Scope-3 dashboard in a separate vendor tool. The numbers are estimates. The audit trail is a spreadsheet. The numbers are decoupled from the actual fleet.

Habeo sustainability

Carbon as a property of the asset itself.

Every asset row knows its embodied carbon (from the manufacturer LCA), its use-phase carbon (eGRID-region-aware), and its disposition carbon (from the ITAD ledger). The institutional total is the sum of audit-grade row math.

Three sustainability levers

Refresh smarter. Attribute honestly. Dispose responsibly.

The three things a higher-ed sustainability office can actually pull on — built into the asset ledger, not a separate dashboard.

Carbon-optimal refresh forecasting.

Does keeping this MacBook one more year reduce institutional Scope-3 emissions — or increase them? The math runs per cohort and recommends which refresh waves to defer.

/reports/refresh-forecast/carbon-optimal

By-college emissions attribution.

Every kgCO2e is attributable to the unit that holds the asset. Useful for AASHE STARS, for college-level emissions budgets, and for the cross-comparisons sustainability officers actually need.

/sustainability/by-college · by-site

ITAD disposition ledger.

Reuse, resale, recycle, landfill — each disposition route carries a documented carbon credit or debit. The aggregate feeds the institutional report and per-college attribution.

/sustainability/inventory
What you actually see

The institutional Scope-3 dashboard, by college.

Methodology

Audit-grade where the math comes from.

Every kgCO2e Habeo reports traces back to a documented public source. No proprietary estimation layer; no “trust us” constants.

Carbon componentSourceExamplesRefresh cadence
EmbodiedManufacturer LCA reportsApple Environmental Reports · Dell PCF · HP Sustainability · Lenovo PSDUpdated per-SKU at acquisition
Use-phaseUS EPA eGRID 2022Regional grid emissions factors, refreshed annuallyRecomputed monthly per asset location
End-of-lifeITAD disposition ledgerReuse / resale / R2-recycle / landfill — documented credits and debitsPer disposition event

/sustainability/carbon-db exposes the underlying emissions factors at any point in time — so an auditor can replay any historical number with the constants we used on that date.

For your sustainability office

Reporting your assurance review will sign off on.

AASHE STARS export.

OP-8 / OP-9 sustainable IT and electronic waste line-items pre-formatted for AASHE STARS submission. The export aligns with the current 3.0 rating-tool fields.

Princeton Review-style sustainability ranking.

By-college attribution gives institutional sustainability offices the granularity that the Green Honor Roll and similar rankings increasingly ask for.

Audit trail on every disposition.

The ITAD chain — picked up by R2-certified vendor, weighed, sorted, refurbished, resold — preserves the carbon credit with the original asset row in the audit log.

Vendor of record per route.

Each disposition route binds to a vendor of record (the R2 e-waste partner, the consortium refurbisher, the internal reuse pool). Proceeds tracking on resale; weights and certificates of destruction on recycle.

Sustainability-office RBAC.

Carbon-database edits and disposition-route assignments are gated behind a sustainability_admin role — separate from IT. Reports are read-only from a sustainability_viewer role.

FERPA-aware on student-employee assets.

Carbon attribution on student-employee assets respects FERPA scope; aggregate-but-not-individual reporting is enforced.

Frequently asked

Sustainability, answered.

The questions sustainability officers and assurance reviewers ask. Answered briefly, sourced to the underlying methodology.

What emissions factors does Habeo use?
Embodied carbon: per-SKU values from manufacturer LCAs (Apple Environmental Reports, Dell Product Carbon Footprints, HP Sustainability Reports, Lenovo Product Sustainability Datasheets) ingested into Habeo's carbon database. Use-phase carbon: regional grid emissions factors from US EPA eGRID 2022 (latest), refreshed annually. End-of-life carbon: credit-or-debit ledger per ITAD outcome (reuse, refurbish, recycle, landfill), with documented offset multipliers.
What is carbon-optimal refresh forecasting?
Most refresh planning is finance-optimal: depreciate over 5 years, replace on schedule. Carbon-optimal asks a different question — does keeping this MacBook one more year reduce or increase lifetime emissions, given embodied carbon, current use-phase carbon, and the carbon of the replacement? The /reports/refresh-forecast/carbon-optimal report runs the math per fleet cohort and shows which refresh batches actually reduce institutional Scope 3 by deferring vs. replacing.
Can we attribute emissions back to a college or department?
Yes. /sustainability/by-college and /sustainability/by-site break institutional Scope-3 IT emissions down to the unit that holds the asset. Useful for AASHE STARS reporting, for Princeton-Review-style sustainability rankings, and for the increasingly common college-level emissions budgets some R1s now publish.
How is the ITAD disposition tracked?
Every retired asset gets a disposition route: reuse (internal redeployment), resale (consortium PunchOut to a refurbisher), recycle (R2-certified e-waste partner), or landfill (last-resort, requires explicit reason). Each route carries a documented carbon credit or debit. The aggregate goes into the institutional Scope-3 report and the per-college attribution.
What reports can we generate?
The standard set: institutional Scope-3 IT emissions report (annual + monthly trending), by-college attribution, ITAD disposition log with carbon credits, refresh-cohort optimization view, and an AASHE STARS-aligned export. Custom reports can be assembled in /sustainability/report with the Habeo Copilot doing the heavy SQL.
Is this audit-grade for sustainability reporting?
The carbon math is built on documented, audit-grade sources (manufacturer LCAs and EPA eGRID). The audit trail captures every input and every assumption that fed a report — so a third-party assurance review can replay any number. /sustainability/carbon-db exposes the underlying emissions factors at any point in time.
Bring your sustainability office

Bring last year's AASHE STARS submission.

On the demo call we'll wire a sample of your fleet, run the carbon math against your eGRID region, and walk a parallel by-college attribution next to your existing report. 30 minutes, founder-led, no SDR triage.