Which IT manager doesn’t have wide-ranging responsibilities these days?

If you work for a multi-national corporation, scale and volume of asset distribution and turnover are eye-popping, running into hundreds of thousands of devices. Remote workers, and most businesses enabled a broad span of employees to work from home during the early Covid years under less-than-ideal circumstances, are a large factor in any size of organisation and simply ‘add to the mix’ of those responsibilities.

In small set-ups, owner-managers will have the same issues but are far less likely to use automated systems to manage areas such as inventory, distribution and disposal networks.

Large or small, if your IT assets lifecycle bulges at the seams this can create gaps in the protective ring you throw around your business.

Key concerns, whatever the scale

That protective ring includes two key areas of concern: data protection, and environmental protection. Here at Restore Technology we provide solutions so those concerns and other surrounding computer recycling can be comprehensively dismissed.

2 – The commitment many of us have made to environmental protection, and some of it enforced by the WEEE Directive that regulates e-waste, creates the urgent need for sustainable practices.

The circular economy – based on the formula of ‘re-use, re-purpose, recycle’ – changes our perspective on waste, including e-waste, and regards it as a resource not as rubbish. The circular economy is about circulating materials for another time around, it’s about not extracting new when it’s not required. By applying the above formula to IT assets, we protect soil and air from harmful contaminants used in the making of computing devices; by extracting and re-using metals and other elements from electronic equipment, energy, water, trees and wellbeing are not expended in having to mine or extract virgin materials. All good news for your ESG strategy.

Restore Technology’s computer recycling guarantee

We understand the need for security and sustainability. We work within the same legal boundaries as you do. The most important factor of all is that we regard e-waste as a resource, not as something to be thrown away or buried in the ground. Find out the detail here.

Here’s what computer recycling means to us

‘Recycling’ doesn’t mean simply smashing up your no-longer-wanted kit. It’s more nuanced, and interesting, than that.

• Some IT assets can be refurbished and re-used, either in your company or at others.
• Other assets can be upgraded and brought back into the fold for a second lease of life at your business.
• For those no-longer-needed computers that retain some value, we can market them through our re-sale channels, earning you a potentially substantial rebate.
• You can choose to donate outmoded equipment to charities and schools, for whom these devices offer a portal to new opportunities.

And, of course, ‘recycling’ does mean breaking down obsolete devices into their constituent parts, including precious metals, plastics, glass, and so on, that can be extracted and sent to trusted specialist recycling firms who will create newly usable materials. Naturally, all the toxins also present in IT devices are disposed of properly, to the letter of the law, followed up by a certificate of destruction, and a Sustainability Report, detailing your organisation’s actions and virgin resource savings.