Recycling and Used Equipment
All equipment eventually comes to the end of its useful life and will need to be disposed of:
EU directives are now in force regarding disposal:
Issues you need to consider:
Waste Electronic & Electrical Equipment Directive (WEEE):
The WEEE Directive is in place this year and equipment requiring an electrical current to operate now needs to be disposed of / recycled in accordance with this regulation
Hazardous Waste Directive:
All types of batteries and cathode ray tubes (CRT) have been reclassified as hazardous waste
The Data Protection act 1994
Part of the Data Protection Act requires that an organisation must remove or destroy any collected data when the equipment is disposed of or becomes redundant.
Our partner company : System-Recycling can assist with all aspects relating
to your disposal or recycling needs:
Services
System Recycling offer a flexible service built around our clients individual needs.
We will work closely with you to manage your end of life or redundant I.T. equipment
We offer all our clients variable collection times and dates to suit their needs
What We Offer
• Collection service using our own transport and staff
• Delivery service if you prefer to ship your equipment to us
• Full and detailed audit trail of your equipment from the moment we start to process it to completion
• Confirmation that any data or applications have been erased or physically destroyed.
Data Destruction
When using System Recycling you can be sure you data will be deleted in the best possible way.
Your hard drive will be either physically destroyed or if any data parts of your computer are to be reused
the hard drive will be subject to a low level format to ensure all data is irretrievably erased