If you've got old IT to get rid of, IT asset disposal has to end with paperwork you can show an auditor. We collect the equipment, scan every asset and drive, destroy the data, recycle what's left and give you the records. From Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, we cover London, Heathrow, the rest of the UK and Europe.
You can have the whole job done in your building, or the kit can come to our facility in sealed conditions. We do the collection ourselves, with our own vehicles and crews.
ITAD is the practice of properly decommissioning and disposing of hardware and electronic devices, and it's part of your IT lifecycle management. Two services sit under it.
Disposing of kit from a data centre, a hospital or a bank? See IT decommissioning for regulated organisations.
Tell us what you've got, roughly how much, and where it is. We'll come back with questions or a quote.
The details below come from the kit we run and the paperwork we hold.
| Waste carrier | Upper tier, Environment Agency CBDU551195 |
|---|---|
| Quality | ISO 9001:2015 certified |
| Shredder | HSM Powerline StoreEx HDS 150, H-3 security cut, 40mm strip |
| DIN 66399 levels | T-1, E-2, H-3 |
| Shredding rate | Up to 210 hard drives an hour, drives up to 3.5" |
| Power | 13 amp socket, or our 7kW Hyundai dual fuel generator |
| Degausser | Verity Systems SV91M, NATO approval, 12 seconds a drive, 7,000 Gauss, 20 hard drives or 40 tapes an hour |
| Puncturing | Baileigh 3 ton arbor press with a 2.5 inch hardened steel spike |
| WEEE recycling | Regulated AATF partner, issues the certification |
| Insurance | Cover per job up to £0.5m without referral. Public liability no less than £2 million |
| Records | Asset register, serial list, certificate of destruction, WEEE paperwork |
Most of our ITAD work is for companies clearing offices, data centres and server rooms, and for organisations that need a clear record of what happened to their data. That includes finance, charities and ITAD companies. The page on IT decommissioning for regulated organisations covers hospitals, the NHS, local authorities and other regulated sectors.
London has its own page: IT disposal in London.
We also work as the UK courier and agent for ITAD companies based abroad. We've managed UK ITAD for several EU clients, including the customs paperwork, the asset registers and the WEEE side, and in August 2024 we ran an 18 tonne truck in London collecting ITAD for a Dutch client.
ITAD stands for IT asset disposal, also called IT asset disposition. It's the practice of properly decommissioning and disposing of hardware and electronic devices, and it's part of your IT lifecycle management. In practice that means a list of what you have, the data destroyed, the equipment recycled or reused, and paperwork for each step.
An ITAD provider collects your retired IT equipment and deals with it so it can't cause you a data or legal problem. A good one lists every asset, destroys the data, sends the rest through a regulated WEEE route, and gives you a record you can show an auditor. If a supplier can't show you those records, keep looking.
Size isn't the test. Ask who handles your kit at each step, whether serial numbers are scanned in, where the drives are destroyed, and whether the recycler is a regulated AATF.
We're a specialist, not the biggest, and we also work as UK agent for two global ITAD companies. Our process guide lists the questions to ask.
At least four: an asset register or serial list, a certificate of destruction for the data bearing devices, WEEE recycling certification, and proof of their waste carrier registration. Ours is upper tier, CBDU551195. Our sample certificate shows what a good one looks like.
Sometimes, but we won't promise it before we know what's there. Some equipment has resale value and some costs money to recycle, and the mix decides the answer. Send us a list and the address and we'll tell you where you stand.
We don't have a standard price. What moves it is how many assets you have, what they are, whether we shred drives on your site or take them away, how far we travel, and whether we have to de-rack or list the kit first. A handful of laptops and a full data centre are different jobs.
There isn't a set figure. A hard drive that held business data is destroyed, not resold, and the cost depends on the quantity and on whether we bring the shredder to you.
The shredded strips go to approved refiners for recycling. Hard drive shredding has the detail.
Servers, racks, PCs, laptops, monitors, network equipment, PDUs, tape libraries and the drives and tapes inside them. We've taken everything from about 80 screens and PCs in an office to four large Juniper MX960 chassis from a data centre. If you're not sure whether we take something, ask.
Yes. Business IT equipment is WEEE, and the paperwork on the way out matters as much as the collection. See business WEEE disposal and our guide to the WEEE regulations for businesses.
Tell us what you've got, how much, and where, and we'll come back with questions or a quote.
We work from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire. Jobs in London, Surrey, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Cheshire, Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and across Europe all run from there, with our own crews.
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