Computer Recycling/Disposal in East Anglia, Home Counties and East Midlands at computeuk.co.uk

Computeuk offer clients a secure means of disposal for their redundant Computer equipment, with the WEEE Directive in force there are stringent regulations for the disposal of Waste and Electrical and Electronic Equipment. For household users this service is free where you can bring any redundant pc equipment to us for recycling. For businesses and organisations of all sizes the Services we offer conform with current regulations by providing a waste transfer note and Hazardous Waste consignment note on collection of your redundant PC equipment. Click on Company Collections for more details, or fill in our Online Quotation for us to contact you. Once you have completed the online quotation we will email you to advise whether any charges will be incurred. The assessment is free of charge and there is no obligation to proceed with the collection. With ComputeUK you can be reassured on Data Security, all data will be secure from retrieval, and will be completely removed from all storage devices. The Process is quick and easy with a turnaround of within 7 days.

SERVICES

ComputeUK offers Professional advise to clients for the disposal of redundant computer equipment in line with the WEEE directive.

Fast efficient collections for Businesses and Organisations of all sizes. We collect throughout the East of England click on Recycling Map for the complete areas we cover.

Hazardous Waste consignment note to meet your legal obligations under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances, RoHS, regulations.

Full audit report detailing Date, Address, Hard drives destroyed, Manufacturer, Serial Numbers, Hardware type and Description.

All traces of origin including tags, logos, labels, stickers and identification marks are removed.

Data destruction certificate to certify that all data has been destroyed on hard drives.

Refurbishment on redundant equipment for resale. Where possible we endeavour to refurbish and re-use as much equipment as possible to assist in the reduction of waste.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) aims to minimise the impacts of electrical and electronic equipment on the environment during their life times and when they become waste by promoting separate collection. It applies to a huge spectrum of products. It encourages and sets criteria for the collection, disposal, treatment, recycling and recovery of all redundant electrical and electronic equipment.

Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) plays an ever-increasing role in our daily lives. We have now come to rely on our electrical appliances. These offer us many benefits but also some costs to the environment as we are throwing away more and more of this waste – in the UK the amount of electrical and electronic waste increases each year by an estimated 80,000 tonnes.

It’s a European-wide problem. Not enough Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is being recycled. In response, the WEEE Directive was agreed in 2003, along with the related Directive on Restrictions of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS). This seeks to improve the way we manage the WEEE we produce and helps to protect both human health and the environment. It sets targets for collecting WEEE, new standards for the treatment of WEEE and strict recycling and recovery targets to help minimise its disposal.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Waste Management Licensing) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006 came into force on 5 January 2007. These Regulations cover England and Wales and deal with the site licensing and WEEE treatment requirements of the WEEE Directive.

You must obtain and keep proof that your WEEE was given to a waste management company, and was treated and disposed of in an environmentally sound way.

DATA SECURITY

One of the main concerns of businesses recycling their PC equipment is data security. Your PC equipment may have sensitive information stored on it which may include financial data, emails, internet history, personal documents, marketing plans, development plans and sales contacts.

ComputeUK ensures all data is destroyed when recycling PC equipment. ComputeUK uses software that permanently deletes all of the personal, confidential and critical data on your hard drive. It permanently deletes this information by overwriting all of the data on your hard drive, this can never be recovered, so you can feel confident that sensitive information is completely destroyed. Once all the data has been destroyed, if required we can provide a certificate of data destruction listing quantity and serial numbers of all hard disks destroyed.

Hazardous wastes are the most dangerous wastes. They can cause the greatest environmental damage or are dangerous to human health. CRT Monitors are classed as hazardous waste under the Hazardous waste regulation 2005 from 16th July 2005.

If you dispose of hazardous waste exceeding 200kg annually your premises will need to be registered as a hazardous waste producer. If you dispose of less than 200kg annually there are some exceptions, making you exempt from registering.

The fee to register is payable to the environment agency and is currently set at £18 for registering online. To register as a hazardous waste producer or for further details click on the environment agency link.

ComputeUK is registered as a hazardous waste producer allowing us to transport and receive hazardous waste at our processing site. Before any hazardous waste leaves your premises a hazardous waste consignment note must be completed, we normally complete these on behalf of the customer.

The consignment note consists of Part A NOTIFICATION DETAILS including your hazardous waste producer number (if applicable). Part B DESCRIPTION OF THE WASTE including the weight of the hazardous waste. Part C CARRIERS CERTIFICATE signed and dated by us to confirm collection. Part D CONSIGNORS CERTIFICATE signed and dated by you to confirm acceptance. Part E CONSIGNEES CERTIFICATE signed and dated by us to confirm acceptance of the waste.

A copy of the hazardous waste consignment note will be left with you (this document must be kept for 3 years) it will need to be presented to the environment agency if inspected.

ComputeUK are registered with the environment agency allowing us to transport specialist waste from a clients base back to our processing facility. Company collections are available to businesses and organisations of all sizes. We collect throughout the East of England click on Recycling Map for the complete areas we cover. Once you have completed the online quotation we will email you to advise whether any charges will be incurred dependant on the equipment, the quantity and services required. The assessment is free of charge and there is no obligation to proceed with the collection. Upon instructions to proceed with the collection we will finalise a collection date and time.

Once the equipment is transferred onto our vehicle by a member of our staff we will issue a waste transfer note which is signed by both parties listing all the collected equipment (this document must be kept for 2 years). It is your record that ComputeUK have taken ownership of the redundant computer equipment in a manner that complies with the environment agency.

Should the collection involve CRT monitors, ComputeUK will issue a Hazardous Waste consignment note to meet your legal obligations under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances, RoHS, regulations. These documents will be supplied at the point of collection.

Once we have received a completed collection form so details of the equipment can be assessed and correctly processed. We will contact you to advise whether any charges will be incurred dependant on the equipment, the quantity and services required. The assessment is free of charge and there is no obligation to proceed with the collection. Upon instructions to proceed with the collection we will finalise a collection date and time. Once the equipment is transferred onto our vehicle by a member of our staff we will issue a waste transfer note which is signed by both parties listing all the collected equipment (this document must be kept for 2 years).

Should the collection involve CRT monitors, ComputeUK will also issue you with a Hazardous Waste consignment note to meet your legal obligations under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances, RoHS, regulations. (this document must be kept for 3 years).

When the equipment arrives back at our premises a complete audit is done detailing Date, Address, Hard drives destroyed, Manufacturer, Serial Numbers, Hardware type and Description. All traces of origin including tags, logos, labels, stickers and identification marks are removed. The equipment is then either recycled or refurbished in line with the WEEE directive.

The data on the hard drives is destroyed and if required a certificate of destruction will be provided confirming all data stored on the hard drives has been destroyed. The process is completed within 7 days from collection date to being provided with a certificate of destruction for all data on storage devices