IT Equipment Disposal (secure and environment friendly)

IT Equipment Disposal (secure and environment friendly)...

Why should you recycle your old IT Equipment?

WEEE Act 2005:

Within the WEEE (Waste Electical and Electronic) Directive is the Hazardous Waste Act 2005. Under this legislation any company that disposes of more than 500kg of hazardous electronic equipment per annum has to register with the Environment Agency as a producer of hazardous waste.

General IT related equipment that falls under this category are CRT monitors, fluorescent tubes and lead acid batteries, PC and Laptop circuitry, thus if you are NOT disposing of CRT monitors, batteries, fluorescent tubes, Computer circuits you do not need to register. In basic terms, you cannot just throw your IT equipment into a skip...

Data Protection Act:

There is also the data protection act to consider. If you hold any data on a PC or Laptop then the data MUST be erased properly prior to disposal. In fact, you may be surpised that reformatting a hard drive may not be enough. So we use specialists that erase the data contents and prevent the data from being accessed again before being sent through a shredding machine.  This sends any hard parts into thousands of unworkable pieces.

What does it cost?

Key: Secure = data delete under secure environment

Please note: All prices exclude vat