Finding new homes for your old tech

Robert Doherty of Recycle IT

While it’s important for competitive businesses to stay up to date with the latest technology, what happens to the old hardware can create an environmental nightmare.

The UK is home to a broad range of extraordinary, world-beating companies. We’re also the second-highest-generating country of e-waste on the planet.

How do you square your corporate ambitions with your environmental and social responsibilities?

Embrace the circular economy: refurbish, reuse and recycle.

Items that may not be fit for purpose in a leading-edge organisation may still provide great benefit to a smaller, less tech-dependent business - or even a school, charity or community group.

Even items past their use-by date can be taken apart and their components reused in other items.

And if your business doesn’t have the budget - or even the demands for - the very latest IT, then buying refurbished can be a great way of equipping your organisation while being kind to the planet.

Every year we receive around 350,000 tonnes of e-waste and we are extremely proud to report that more than 80 per cent of it finds a new home, and zero per cent goes to landfill.

Your sensitive data is safe with us as we hold various accreditations including ADISA 8.0, and the refurbished devices we sell are Grade A quality.

We operate within the widely recognised National Sustainability Project which means that as well as saving you money on devices, we also offer rebates on redundant kit whilst offsetting your carbon footprint.

Better still, we plant one tree for every tonne of e-waste we collect, and one tree for every ten devices sold.

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