{"id":8853,"date":"2024-09-25T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.restore.co.uk\/technology\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:25:59","slug":"why-computer-recycling-is-important-for-your-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.restore.co.uk\/technology\/why-computer-recycling-is-important-for-your-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Computer Recycling is Important For Your Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s a secure and substantial first step into the circular economy, and will bring big benefits for you, big benefits for everybody.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Which IT manager doesn\u2019t have wide-ranging responsibilities these days?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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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 \u2018add to the mix\u2019 of those responsibilities.<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Large or small, if your <\/span>IT assets lifecycle <\/span><\/a>bulges at the seams this can create gaps in the protective ring you throw around your business.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Key concerns, whatever the scale<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

That protective ring includes two key areas of concern: <\/span>data protection<\/b>, and <\/span>environmental protection<\/b>. Here at Restore Technology we provide solutions so those concerns and other surrounding computer recycling can be comprehensively dismissed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1 –<\/strong> The need for <\/span>data protection<\/b>, driven by compliance with GDPR and keeping business secrets safe means enhanced <\/span>security<\/b> is required.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/p>\n

When your assets reach the end of their lifecycle with you, you need to know that a security cordon will be thrown around them by the ITAD business handling them. At Restore Technology, our secure collection operatives are security-checked, their vehicles tracked from your site to our facility. Entrance is via password and watched by 24-hour monitored CCTV. Once in our system, your assets will automatically have all their data overwritten and made totally unusable with the latest, most complete technologies, before heading into the correct stream for recycling, re-use or re-sale. All safe and sound, all compliant.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2 –<\/strong> The commitment many of us have made to <\/span>environmental protection<\/b>, and some of it enforced by the WEEE Directive that regulates e-waste, creates the urgent need for <\/span>sustainable<\/b> practices.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/p>\n

The circular economy \u2013 based on the formula of \u2018re-use, re-purpose, recycle\u2019 \u2013 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\u2019s about not extracting new when it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Restore Technology\u2019s computer recycling guarantee<\/b><\/h3>\n


\n<\/b>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<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s what computer recycling means to us<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018Recycling\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean simply smashing up your no-longer-wanted kit. It\u2019s more nuanced, and interesting, than that.<\/span><\/p>\n