At WEEE Technology we offer a variety of services when it comes to your IT assets. One of these is IT asset disposal (often shortened to ITAD); here we explain how this differs from IT asset remarketing or resale.
IT Asset Disposal and Disposition
This is what happens when you want to get rid of an IT asset – whether it’s a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile – because it has reached the end of its useful life. This doesn’t just mean the physical components of any electronic device, but the data which is stored on it.
IT asset disposal isn’t quite the same thing as IT asset disposition; the dictionary definition of the latter means ‘to give up ownership’ or ‘to change ownership’. So, IT asset disposition means the device be reused, reconfigured, sold on to someone else (either the whole device or some of its constituent parts).
Disposal Doesn’t Always Mean Landfill
At WEEEE Technology, even ‘disposal’ doesn’t necessarily mean that an electronic device won’t be reused in some form. We are a licensed computer disposal company based in London and work with an Approved Authorised Treatment Facility (AATF) where the e-waste can be processed and broken down. More than 90% of the electronic equipment which is sent to the AATF can be processed.
After the processing has taken place, the individual materials can be crushed and sold by the tonne to manufacturing industries and the energy sector, who can separate out the raw materials so new goods can be produced. Items which come to us are only sent to landfill sites as a last resort.
IT Asset Resale
If your IT equipment is still usable and not obsolete, it may be viable to resell them. At WEEE Technology have a number of contacts within the IT industry who specialise in buying specific and well-known brands such as Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM. This means we can secure surprisingly high prices for the client whenever the equipment is resold – we offer a financial rebate for clients, which can sometimes exceed the cost of the decommissioning process.
And Disposal Means the Data as Well
While the physical elements of any device don’t always need to be destroyed, the data and information which is stored on it can be. The General Data Protection Regulations mean that customers now have rights over the way their personal information is handled or disposed of – and there can be severe penalties for businesses and organisations who don’t comply with the law and let any data fall into the wrong hands.
At WEEE Technology, we offer data erasure and destruction services from our base in central London. We securely wipe data by overwriting the hard drives. We then produce a full asset report, which includes erasure certificates for every drive.
All drives that fail to data wipe will be securely destroyed and recycled with disposal reports issued accordingly. Again, we provide clients a Certificate of Destruction, detailing the serial number of every hard disk we destroy.
WEEE Technology – a Computer Disposal Company Based in London
If you would like to know more about our IT asset disposal or resale, then you can call us on 020 7859 4669. If you would like a quick quote, follow this link and fill in the online form (including one of the two boxes relating to either disposal or resale).
