subject: Useful Tips When Hiring A Recycling Computer Waste Disposal Company [print this page] Recycling companies should work within the WEEE (Waste electrical and electronic equipment) Directive as a complete Waste Management company and Approved Authorised Treatment Facility. Equipment which enters the recycling facility enters as waste and is separated and sorted, then broken down into waste categories. The categories are then either recovered in house or are sent in bulk to refineries for further reclamation.
A typical service from a recycling company would include collection of the IT equipment items, documentation and duty of care notices including certificates of destruction of equipment and data. Also if required secure transfer of important data which is to be destroyed away from the company site. The recycler should also be able to attend your site and render all forms of media useless with our CESG approved physical destruction process.
Data destruction services can often process a hard drive in less than 15 seconds per hard drive which means it can be cost effective to process the destruction compared with other forms of recycling. Soft media like DLT tapes are shredded using dual blade single shaft shredders.
Off the desk collection services is where specialist teams are sent into a site to remove any amount of items from off the desk within a period of time. The service is mostly used during large desktop refresh programs where equipment is being removed the day before new equipment is being installed.
Itemised asset management services records the asset details from all items in a collected consignment and delivers a full report detailing a description, make, and model and serial/asset number. Space is a virtue in the ever growing offices of today, along with the provision of new equipment leaves the need to store old equipment ready for reuse or recycling. Recycling companies can offer and wide range of cost effective container hire services.
If you have large amount of stock which is computer or electronic equipment related and it still has a worth, some recycle companies have the ability to purchase, sort and re-market products either for commission as an end of line clearance or outright purchase.
Recycling existing computer systems and electronic equipment not only saves you storage space, it also helps the environment, for example the metal used in computer cases can be reused for any number of new products. The WEEE directive is aiming to achieve a higher level of environmental protection and encouraging resource efficiency. It sets targets for the collection, reuse and recycling of electronic and electrical waste.
