International Recognition for Recycling efforts in UK

We have today had confirmation from the Basal Action Network who are an American non profit organisation dedicated to stopping the flow of Hazardous waste from the developing countries to the third world countries like Africa and Asia that they are supporting our efforts in the UK for recycling of electrical equipment by allowing us to use their photos on our website.

We are constantly hearing of stories of how equipment that UK, American or EU companies thought had been disposed of by a reputable company, only to find that they have turned up in a market in Nigeria or on a toxic ewaste dump in china or another third world country. We only heard of a story today where a college in the UK used a company to recycle their computers after an upgrade only to find that they had been sold onto another school via ebay without even having the hard drives wiped of all their date stored on them.

We aim to help inform businesses of the dangers of disposing of their computers especially if they are using a company who will collect the equipment for free.
We feel that it is much better to send any non working equipment for recycling in the UK at one of our partners WEEE recycling plants where they are physically destroyed by shredding and then the precious metals which in a third world country would be smelted out over an open fire but here in the UK are extracted using not toxic methods for re-use as raw materials in producing new products which still fully complies with the WEEE directive.

We welcome the support and approval from Basel Action Network and would hope that any one looking for more information on how to recycle correctly and unsure that your date is safe from access by any one else after you have given it to a company for them to dispose of it for you that you visit the basel action network or visit this document "computer recycling the wrong way" on the perils of getting it wrong.

UK IT Recycling- the only way for recycling disposal peace of mind

UK IT Recycling- the only way for recycling disposal peace of mind

Worried about your IT equipment when you have replaced it with a new shinny piece of equipment?

Looking for the correct way of getting rid of your obsolete equipment whilst ensuring that your data on the computer is safely destroyed?

Worried about the equipment being sent by an unscrupulous company to China, Africa or India to be taken apart by a worker with no protection whilst they smelt down your motherboard for the precious metals in the same pans they will then use for cooking dinner?

We are trying to stop the common practice mostly used by companies offering to collect equipment for free of collection IT and computer equipment from British companies and after only minimal attempts to protect your date sending the equipment overseas to the third world often still with the company asset tags and sometimes without even data wiping the hard drives correctly.

What can you do to protect yourselves?

The best option is to go for a total recycling disposal option like the one that we offer which for equipment older than three years old is really the only way to go as even the companies who are promoting reuse can only really use computers less than three years old as any older than this and there is no market for them even in the third world countries and they would only be recycled abroad again possibly in third world countries.

If you are interested in helping us protect the third world countries from receiving more ewaste especially computer monitors and computers which are not working or to old to be of use then please visit our website for details on how we can help you with your IT recycling and ensure that your equipment and data are physically destroyed and recycled as raw materials here in the UK at one of our weee recycling plants located near to you to also help you reduce your carbon footprint.